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...Dana Parker, a captain in the Alabama National Guard, as he jumps into a green Hughes 500 helicopter, joining James Powell, a Viet Nam veteran and flight instructor from Memphis. They take off with a contra pilot at the controls. The two Americans are unarmed. The chopper's rocket pods are empty. The visitors, who have no ties to the CIA, are bringing boots and uniforms for the contras. Their aircraft crashes−its whereabouts unknown...
...every aspect of the expanding universe was seen in terms of fried fish, sloppy kisses, gin, and the saxophone whose message transcends knowing." Very hep and very fond, Unsung Heroes also includes an "Archaeologia Rockola," which can direct the untutored reader to such diverse selections as Brenston's Rocket "88"and a Johnny Mercer-Nat King Cole collaboration called Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat). This book is so sharp about the music, and so tantalizing about some of the obscure material, that it really ought to have come packaged...
...weaponry to West Germany-especially the M1 Abrams tank, the Black Hawk helicopter and the computerized Multiple Launch Rocket System-has cheered the troops. After the 3rd Infantry Division at Wurzburg received its new tanks in 1982, the re-enlistment rate for those eligible to re-up after their first tour of duty shot up from 20% to 70%. On a more mundane level, members of the 8th Infantry at Baumholder are grateful for a new motor-pool building, which has ended the practice of repairing tanks in the icy outdoors during winter...
...girls (count 'em) drilling in the sun? A magic show. People turned into flags. A band became a map of the United States, and the map sang America the Beautiful. Why didn't 84 pianists in blue playing Rhapsody in Blue look preposterous? Why didn't Rocket Man look more preposterous? We knew it would happen, yet it happened. The athletes strode in and touched us again. China and Rumania brought down the house. When the President said, "I declare open the Olympic Games of Los Angeles," were we supposed to think politics? When we gulped...
...developing a 17-ft.-long, two-stage ASAT rocket launched into space from high-flying F-15 jets. The miniaturized infrared guidance device is so sensitive to temperatures that it can detect the presence of a foot-square block of ice in space at 500 miles. The F-15 can get airborne, launch its rocket and intercept a satellite within ten minutes. Concludes the congressional Office of Technology Assessment: "The U.S. air-launched ASAT weapon now undergoing testing is clearly technically superior to the present generation of Soviet ground-launched ASATs...