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Sweden believes that it can safeguard its neutrality only by producing its own air-defense weapons. The cost of manufacturing the Draken or Viggen fighter-bombers, however, would have been prohibitive without foreign sales. Thanks to rising costs of raw materials, even U.S. manufacturers are beginning to require foreign sales to make their products cost-effective (Iran's purchase of 80 F-14s from Grumman saved that company from insolvency...
...even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat of Soviet MIR vs now being deployed, the Pentagon has ordered major "rewiring" of both the pyramid-shaped nerve center of the Safeguard anti-missile system in North Dakota and the North American Air Defense Command's Cheyenne Mountain headquarters in Colorado, which keeps track of every man-made object in space (3,269 at last count...
Senate Democrats also readied an energy program they will offer as an alternative to Ford's. It takes a more cautious approach. While the President seeks an immediate cut in oil imports to safeguard the nation in case of another Arab embargo, the Democrats are content with a more gradual reduction in foreign oil over the long run. They oppose Ford's scheme to reduce consumption by raising the price of oil because it would be a drag on an already sagging economy. Says a Senate staffer who specializes in energy: "There is no need for a sudden...
...users and producers and its chances for broad acceptance seem uncertain at best. In Western Europe and Japan, which are far more dependent on OPEC oil than is the U.S., critics argue that the floor plan is mainly aimed at getting the rest of the industrial world to safeguard a big U.S. investment in costlier sources of energy. The critics fear that they would be locked into a long-term commitment to high-cost energy that would offer unclear returns far off in the future. Japan's Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said that he considered the floor plan "beyond...
...planted ten undercover agents in dissident groups in the Washington, D.C., area to gather intelligence about "demonstrations, pickets, protests or break-ins" that might endanger CIA "personnel, facilities and information." By law, the CIA director can take steps to safeguard CIA operations and secrets, so up to a point that operation was defensible. But Colby said that the agents' reports were also "made available to the FBI, Secret Service and local police departments." By those actions, the CIA perhaps crossed the boundary of its charter...