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Most critics agree with Gordon Adams, director of the Washington-based Defense Budget Project, that these weapons probably can be bought "only at the price of a drastic cut in the size of the U.S. armed forces or a debilitating slash in spending for readiness" (training, ammunition, spare parts). The whole contretemps raises a harrowing but unavoidable question: Can the U.S. afford to pay for the defense it needs -- and just how much does it need anyway? In his best-selling book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Historian Paul Kennedy points out that such dominant nations...
ADMINISTRATIVE EDITOR: Leah Shanks Gordon...
Only a few years ago, "no one knew anything about Turkey," says Gordon Roberts, a Briton who retired from the publishing industry two years ago, and now spends nine months each year sailing off the Turkish coast with his wife. "It used to be an absolute backwater. Midnight Express was the only thing that people knew about the place." (Turkey does have stringent drug laws, and travelers caught with even one gram of hashish risk a heavy jail term...
...Gordon M. Burnes...
...under way at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the machine is several years away from being ready for such a mission. Besides, notes McLucas, "there are language problems, cultural problems. Management is much more difficult with more parties getting into the act." Nonetheless, M.I.T. Planetary Physicist Gordon Pettengill believes such a mission should be technically feasible "before...