Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Destroying tanks is expensive too. Six years ago the Army decided to commission its own shoulder-held antitank weapon, called the Viper, to replace a Norwegian model costing $135. The U.S. version would be cheaper, a mere $78, and have a longer range. But the first models proved too noisy, so the firing tube was lengthened. When these were tested, part of the barrel blew off. Subjected to the prescribed two-hour water-immersion test, the weapon failed after five minutes underwater. The Norwegian model now costs $250. The Viper, if Congress does not shoot it down, is expected...
...station is scientifically valuable and could even help doctors select and prepare the best possible crews for long space journeys, the reason for the American presence at the pole is as much geopolitical as geophysical. It gives the U.S. a unique toehold in all the Antarctic claims except the Norwegian, which stops short of the pole proper. Says Bernhard Lettau, polar oceanography manager for the National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S.'s $67.4 million-a-year Antarctic scientific effort: "The pole is highly symbolic. By being here we maintain our status as first among equals of the treaty...
...Common Market, everyone in Scandinavia, almost the entire Eastern bloc--but not a single nation in Africa, or the Far East, or Latin or South America. There is a doll garbed in traditional Mexican costume--her skin is just as fair and her cheeks just as rosy as the Norwegian doll next to her on the shelf...
...argued that Europe could meet its energy needs by increasing use of nuclear power, Norwegian gas and U.S. coal, but the Europeans maintained that such alternatives were not available. Opposition to nuclear energy is widespread in Europe; Norway has been slow to develop its natural-gas potential; and the U.S. does not have the capacity to ship enough coal to Europe...
Edinburgh's cargo was not forgotten either. After 1957, Britain lifted the ban on salvage operations that had been in effect because of the ship's war grave status. Several costly searches for the cruiser were made by British, Norwegian and Russian companies to no avail, since both British and German records had mistaken the wreck's actual location. But last week a team of civilian divers was laboriously bringing to the surface 23-lb. gold bars taken from the cruiser's ammunition room. It quickly became one of the most lucrative deep-sea salvage missions...