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...handle than the Ml, and it can be used after dark. It's got a night scope that can pick up targets a mile away using infra-red light. And you should see what we have instead of the old bazooka. First there's the 90-mm. recoilless rifle with a "starlight" scope for enhanced visibility and a shaped charge that can penetrate all known Soviet armor. For the heaviest tanks, we have the Dragon antitank missile-it's a one-man job, 31 lbs. I've shot it myself. Then there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: UPDATING WILLIE AND JOE | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...also got what they call "smart" weapons; I guess I ought to say "smarter" weapons. There's the Shillelagh missile that's fired from a 152-mm. gun and is guided by an infra-red beam. There are a couple of others-a type of Maverick and the Copperhead-that are tracked to their targets by laser beams. Real Flash Gordon stuff! But don't worry about me getting vaporized by a laser or anything like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: UPDATING WILLIE AND JOE | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...examples. It features preteen girls showing off their genitals in the gynecological style popularized by Penthouse and Playboy. Other periodicals, with names such as Naughty Horny Imps, Children-Love and Child Discipline, portray moppets in sex acts with adults or other kids. The films are even raunchier. An 8-mm. movie shows a ten-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother in fellatio and intercourse. In another film, members of a bike gang break into a church during a First Communion service and rape six little girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Child's Garden of Perversity | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...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 both tanks "interoperable." The XM1 would take the 120-mm. smooth-bored gun used in the German tank; the Leopard II would use the engine assembly of the American vehicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: New Troubles for Old Friends | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Gilmore sent Amber Jim one of his own poems, a gloomy meditation that began "Feeling a beckoning wind blow thru/ The chambers of my soul I knew/ It was time I entered in ..." On a cheerier note, he said he had asked a relative to buy her an 8-mm. movie camera and projector. He thought about her every day, would write to her every day, and added: "Be cool. I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Idyll of Gary and Amber Jim | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

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