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Long described the war's continuing devastation of Vietnam, noting that when he visited the country in 1980, he still saw more scrap metal than vegetation along the roads...
...proposal was deceptive and vague. The SS-4s and SS-5s were overdue for the scrap heap anyway. The Soviets may have deployed excess SS-20s precisely so that they could negotiate away some of the surplus to prove their reasonableness. Moreover, Andropov left open the possibility of merely moving the excess SS-20s so that they were east of the Urals; from there the missiles could be put on trains and brought back within range of Europe...
...class of companies that make steel in what are called minimills: small, low-cost plants that utilize state-of-the-art technology and, in most cases, nonunion labor. These factories contain none of the costly blast furnaces used to transform raw materials into steel. Instead, they take scrap steel, melt it down and reshape it into new forms. The minimills fashion small, specialized steel products rather than huge beams and sheets. Nucor's steel can be found, for example, in reinforcing rods for concrete walls, traffic barricades and lawnmowers...
...trained on Europe would be included, and these could merely be moved into the Asian part of the U.S.S.R. and quickly brought back and retargeted on Western Europe in a crisis. The remaining 280 cuts would be single-warhead missiles that are obsolete and headed for the scrap heap anyway...
...that will hold down revenues and help perpetuate the deficit dilemma. Given Congress's reluctance to make necessary cuts in spending and Reagan's determination to boost defense outlays, Schultze, Heller and Eckstein contended that the best way to shrink the budget gap may be to scrap the indexing plan. If Congress decided immediately to repeal indexing, the action might reassure financial markets and help bring down long-term interest rates...