Word: galvin
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...defense officials are worried about the pressure to ban low-altitude flights. "I am concerned that this accident would cause people to relate it somehow to low-level training," said U.S. Army General John R. Galvin, the NATO commander. NATO defense planners rely heavily on aircraft to offset a Warsaw Pact advantage in tanks, and effective use of aircraft demands low approaches to avoid radar and ground-to-air missiles...
Defense Week quoted sources as attributing the shift that favored Unisys to Paisley's close association with William Galvin, a consultant to the company. The publication quoted several sources as saying that Galvin had boasted about having "wired" the Aegis competition in Sperry's favor...
...foreseeable future, said NATO Supreme Commander General John Galvin last week, the U.S. will have to come to terms with the "military reality that you must tie your base structure to what you need for long-range mobility." What the U.S. needs for that mobility continues to be an array of overseas bases in roughly their present configuration. That makes the precedent set at Torrejon all the more worrisome...
...question is whether, with another few months and another $40 million, the contras will be able to carry out the kind of military moves necessary to keep the support of a restless U.S. Even with consistent funding, predicts General John Galvin, head of the U.S. Southern Command, it will take at least several years for the contras to overthrow the Sandinistas...
State Rep. William Galvin (D-Allston) observed as he left the Eighth Congressional District race that "the media can be fair or they can be interesting" -- they can give equal time to each candidate, or they can feature those with quotable speeches and photogenic looks, assuming that their audience will not be interested in the others. Many journalists underestimate their audiences and the people--accustomed to being underestimated--learn to expect simplistic coverage for lack of experience with genuinely democratic consideration of issues and people...