Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the budget snipping under way at the White House, Taylor fears that the Reagan Administration may yet launch an orgy of aimless military buying and building that will weaken us economically. He worries about stockpiling mountains of weapons for a surprise nuclear salvo that is the least likely of conflicts. Meanwhile, the nation might be left unprepared for small, sharp fights that could paralyze us by cutting off oil or scarce minerals. Taylor notes that OPEC price increases shook the foundation of NATO and diminished American power as much as some Soviet military improvements...
...Gardner, now 66, fired a powerful salvo, Fads and Fallacies. The author took aim at the orgone-box sex theories of Wilhelm Reich, spoofed the father of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard...
...according to military reformers, the Navy's plans play directly into a Soviet sea-warfare strategy that is designed specifically to sink big new carriers. Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, commander of the Soviet navy, has written that "a single submarine is capable of destroying a major surface ship with a salvo of cruise missiles." And the Soviets' "Oscar"-class submarines, put into service last year, can dive deeper and swim faster than anything the U.S. has produced...
...many as 120 Katyusha rockets across the border, concentrating on the Israeli coastal resort town of Nahariya (pop. 30,000) and the settlement of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 20,000). The attacks killed three Israelis and injured 25. The assault had been well aimed and well timed to maximize casualties; salvo after salvo of rockets, fired at tenor 15-minute intervals, fell on the two communities at an hour when many of their residents were homeward bound from work and thus unprotected...
...next day, however, the pugnacious Chirac blasted Mitterrand's nationalization and economic programs. The self-proclaimed leader of the center-right declared sarcastically, "France is not a laboratory for apprentices to try out their contradictory and irreversible experiments." It was the opening salvo of what promises to be a brutal electoral battle, in which Chirac's Gaullists and the remnants of Giscard's U.D.F. will attempt to retain their parliamentary majority and block Mitterrand's reform plans...