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...that he was seeking a second supplier for the superthrust F404 engine, which powers the F-18 fighter-bomber. Weinberger also showed a willingness to crack down. He told Congress that he would not ask for more money in fiscal 1985 to buy the Army's problem-plagued Sergeant York antiaircraft gun pending further tests, and indicated that the weapon might be terminated altogether. The Army had planned to buy 618 of the guns by 1987 (estimated cost: $4.5 billion). Before a Senate subcommittee, Lieut. General Louis Wagner Jr. admitted that the gun's guidance system worked...
...Army sergeant stationed in West Germany was approached by a Soviet agent code-named Misha. He reported the contact and was instructed to play along. Reassigned to the Army Intelligence Agency at Fort Meade, Md., the sergeant was twice sent by the Soviets to their Mexico City embassy. Along with $6,500 and a promise of a monthly $500 retainer, he was given a miniature tape recorder, secret writing paper and a deciphering code for microdot messages...
Despite the large crowd, Sergeant Anthony L. Ferraro of the Cambridge Police did not encounter any problems. "Everyone's having a good time, but they're all in hand. People are conducting themselves very well and we've had no problems." No arrests or disturbances had been reported by the end of the day, according to Police Department officials...
...largely to Playwright Charles Fuller, whose A Soldier's Play earned the Pulitzer Prize and just about every other drama award of 1982, and to the Negro Ensemble Company, where the play was first staged. Every actor, from Adolph Caesar as the frog-voiced, wonderfully malign drill sergeant to Howard E. Rollins Jr. as the haughty black lawyer assigned to investigate the sergeant's death, puts subtlety and pride into his performance. Rollins is scarily imposing: he suggests a Sidney Poitier who refuses to ingratiate himself to anyone, least of all the audience...
...power of seeing a black face in a real role affected the whole city as I knew it." It remains for Hollywood to put more real black faces on the nation's screens, and for black actors to keep fighting to show their faces. As the tough sergeant growls in A Soldier's Story, "Not havin' is no excuse for not getting...