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...support for battlefield troops comes from a top general of the Tactical Air Command. Why, then, is there $357 million in the Pentagon's fiscal 1983 budget for 20 more of the aircraft, each of which is $1.6 million costlier than the more sophisticated F-16 Fighting Falcon? The answer, insists the general: "We are buying them only because of political pressure...
...Senate, however, different political factors were at play. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is Republican John Tower of Texas; the F-16 Fighting Falcon is made in Fort Worth by General Dynamics Corp. Tower's committee cut all funds for the rival A10. The Pentagon, which still insists it does not need more A-10s, last week readily accepted the Senate cut. But Addabbo predicts that some of the planes will be restored when the House and Senate work out a final version. Says he: "In conference, I expect a compromise will be made...
...crunch will be most acute for the small manufacturers who supply major contractors. Hans Weiss of Manchester, Conn., whose Dynamic Metal Products Co. welds machined engine parts for the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters, has a two-year backlog of orders. He warns, "If subcontract work on the B-1 bomber comes here, we just won't be able to take it on." Apex Machine Tool Co. in nearby Farmington, Conn., which makes fixtures and gauges for giant lathes and milling machines used in aircraft production, is already running at 100% capacity. Says President...
During his doomed dash to the South Pole in 1912, British Explorer Robert Falcon Scott was right enough when he called it this "awful place." But Antarctica, half again as large as the continental U.S., is also a world of spectacular beauty. Beyond its great central plateau, where the ice is more than two miles thick, are towering mountains, volcanoes, and glaciers as big as Rhode Island that creep inexorably toward the sea at rates up to two miles a year. There are even curious, snow-free "dry valleys" where the winds have sculpted the rocks into a phantasmagoria...
Some of the House's more than 430 residents appeared in the courtyard in bathrobes and shoes, but most were fully dressed. David E. Edelman '83 said he was watching the Eagles-Falcon game in television when the alarm sounded. "I decided. 'To hell with this, I'm going to go over to Winthrop and watch the football,' and by the time I got back they were all inside," he added...