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...maintain the strategic vision of his revolution, Deng will have to summon up all his reserves of political capital and tactical skills. At 82, will he have the time to deploy them...
...rush to deploy the B-1B, the Air Force went into production while the aircraft was still undergoing major design modifications. Even before the first bombers became operational last fall at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, there were portents of trouble. The plane's fuel tanks, built directly into the wings without rubber bladders, leak jet fuel. Early flight tests revealed problems caused by loading cruise missile launchers and antiradiation pods onto the original airframe design. In gaining an extra 41 tons -- nearly a 25% increase -- without additional wing surface, the B-1B had acquired an extraordinary "wing loading...
Most of us are aware that the sticking point at the Iceland summit was whether the U.S. would be allowed to deploy a space-based laser "defense" within the next 10 years. Reagan chided Soviet leader Gorbachev for his fears regarding SDI, asking, "What do the Soviets have to fear? SDI is simply an insurance policy for the United States." However, five recent studies--conducted in the U.S., West Germany and the Soviet Union--suggest otherwise...
...possibility cannot be ruled out that the prohibitive costs of building a defensive system might force the government to concentrate solely on the offensive aspects of SDI. In any case, if the U.S. were to deploy the Strategic Defense-Offense Initiative, we would have spent hundreds of billions of dollars--yet would have gone right back to where we started from. Back to mutually assured destruction, the MAD doctrine raised to the power of two. We would still be hostages of our own destructive technology...
...leader sounded again and again throughout the visit. His strongest words were reserved for President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars. Gorbachev told a group of Indian leftists that the plan was a "voracious monster" based on a "fundamentally inhumane" concept. The U.S. decision to deploy another B- 52 bomber capable of carrying nuclear missiles, the Soviet leader said, violated the 1979 SALT II accord and ran counter to the spirit of the October summit...