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...liveliest defense arguments rages around the Navy, which expectably has been assigned a high priority under Weinberger's concept of the "island nation." The Secretary calls the Navy "our primary instrument to project our military power to distant, but vital, regions." To project power, the Navy is wedded to battle groups centered on giant aircraft carriers, preferably nuclear propelled. The Administration wants to expand the number of major carriers from 13 now to 15 by 1992. Allowing for replacement of carriers scheduled to retire, that would require starting three new Nimitz-class (93,400 ton) carriers in the next three...
...three weeks after Ireland's inconclusive general election, incumbent Prime Minister Charles Haughey and Opposition Leader Garret FitzGerald raced to form a new government. Last week FitzGerald won. He crafted an ingenious pact between his own pro-business Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) party and the ideologically distant, pro-union Labor Party. The result: a razor-thin majority of three seats in the Irish Dáil (parliament)-and a coalition so vulnerable it will take all of FitzGerald's wizardry just to last out the summer...
...children won a ruling awarding them $167 a week for the next ten years -roughly $84,000 in all. Reasoned Administrative Law Judge Leo LaPorte: "Man is by nature a social creature. It is not reasonable to expect that an employee who is on assignment to a distant land will simply stare at the walls of his hotel room after work hours...
...into heroin, so I cooked it up and shot it into a vein. A few minutes later my whole body was going cold. It felt like I was going to faint or was getting seasick. The whole world was going gray, everybody in the room getting real distant. I was going limp and lifeless, and the only thing I could think about was to concentrate on my breathing...
With few exceptions, economists reject proposals for returning the world's money system to gold. Yale's Robert Triffin, for example, says that it is "an absurd waste of human resources to dig gold in distant corners of the earth for the sole purpose of transporting it and reburying it immediately afterward in other deep holes." Yet gold's hold on the general public remains. As Janos Fekete, the deputy head of the National Bank of Hungary, once explained at a conference of monetary experts: "There are about 300 economists who are against gold - and they might...