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TANK COMPONENTS. In 1974 former Defense Secretary'James Schlesinger and Defense Minister Leber agreed that there should be fair competition between the West Germans' Leopard II battle-tank prototype and the Americans' XM-1; if the Leopard won the competition, the U.S. would also accept it as its major armored vehicle for the mid-1980s. The decision was hailed as an important step toward equipment standardization within NATO-until U.S. military pride and industry pressure opposed it. As a compromise, Schlesinger's successor, Donald Rumsfeld, worked out an agreement in principle with the Germans to make...
Then a hitch developed: the U.S. Army leaked the "results" of tests on the two tanks, which implied that the Leopard was inferior to the XM-1. Infuriated, the Germans let it be known that if Washington reneged on the tank agreement, Bonn would refuse to go along with the U.S. plan to have NATO adopt AWACS, an American-made flying early-warning system, for which West Germany was to put up a quarter of the $2.6 billion cost...
...Baby. One of the all-time great screwball comedies. Cary Grant plays a sort of shy paleontologist. But he does, as Katherine Hepburn, a rich young New York thing put it, "look awfully handsome with your glasses off." Kate and Cary spend two hours chasing Baby, Kate's baby leopard, and George, her dog, though Kate of course is on the prowl for bigger game. Howard Hawks directed this refreshingly irrelevant lunacy...
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...CASANOVA" and fantasize. An irresistible cock, glitter, a leopard voice, suave and strong--these fragments make a fantasy character out of adult fairy tale. Casanova stands for the Prince Charming of sex, the man whom all women can have but none can hold, the supreme stud who infallibly provides the ultimate fuck. Everybody knows just enough about the courtly playboy to create such a puppet; few have enough information to flesh out a human individual, Giacomo Casanova of Venice. For art and imagination's sake, so much the better; a real person is too eccentric to be the plaything...