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MCCORMMACH'S CLEVER and poignant tale of dreams silently betrayed and slain by the whims of time touches the present. Quantum physics and relativity have spawned the laser and computers that improve our lives and the bombs that menace them. And perhaps no aspect of nuclear weapons is as terrifying as their arbitrariness, their capacity to obliterate the hopes, plans, and dreams of mankind. They threaten to make the past irrelevant and the future impossible. They wobble like crockery in the clumsy hands of blind and drunken children, the bureaucracies and coteries that have so far maintained the balance...
Amazingly, Pryor pulled through; within two months he was telling Barbara Walters and a national TV audience how he had died and been born again. More amazingly, and even more typically, he was able to focus the laser of his art on this suicidal immolation. "Before I go to bed," he tells his Sunset Strip audience with a straight face and in the voice of aggrieved reason, "I like to have some milk and cookies. This night I had some low-fat milk, and I mixed it with some pasteurized, and I dipped the cookie in, and ..." Then comes...
Lethal warships in space. Laser beams fired from orbiting rockets. Satellites zapped out of the sky. It sounds like the script of Star Wars, but according to testimony last week, the Pentagon's top weapons man believes it is perilously close to becoming a reality. Richard DeLauer, chief of research and engineering for the Defense Department, predicts that the Soviet Union may be ready to put into orbit as early as next year laser weapons capa ble of destroying U.S. spy and communications satellites. By 1990, he expects the Soviets to have "a large, permanent, manned, orbital space complex...
...which are disputed by some defense scientists, go considerably beyond previous U.S. assessments of the Soviet lead in the space arms race. The two nations agreed in 1967 to ban weapons of mass destruction from space, but efforts to extend the pact to cover antisatellite weapons, including space-based lasers, have been fruitless. The Pentagon says that since 1977 the Soviets have had an operational nonlaser anti-satellite satellite that explodes near the target, spraying it AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY with metal-piercing fragments. The n U.S. hopes to test its own satellite-killer system this summer: rockets launched from...
...dispute with Hughes Helicopters, Inc., concerning the AH-64 Apache helicopter. Hughes says the attack helicopter's price, projected at $7.4 million apiece in 1978, has more than doubled, to $18.26 million, because of Army-ordered changes during nine years of development. Among them: substituting a laser-guided antitank missile for the original weapon, guided by wire, and adding a computerized sighting system for night use. Although there is $876.8 million for 48 Apaches in the 1983 requests, the Army is delaying production until the price issue is resolved...