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...slow A-10 Thunderbolt is a "close-support" aircraft, intended to swoop in low over a battlefield and savage the enemy's infantry and armor. When the prototype jets started flying in 1975, some Air Force brass were worried that its GAU8 antitank cannon was not up to snuff. The nose-mounted, 30-mm weapon was like a Gatling gun, with seven rotating barrels. And like a Gatling gun, it seemed a little oldfashioned, unworthy of a state-of-the-art Air Force. Colonel Bob Dilger was ordered to Dayton to take over the GAU8 program...
Inflation fears could snuff the investment rush to fixed-income securities...
...with your official U. N. tour. It is an awful, one-sided display, which was cleared in advance with the Palestinian Liberation Organization's representative to the U. N.--and U. N. officials admitted that they would have delayed the exhibit had he not found it up to snuff...
Wardens will whisper their private gratitude that courts have finally got money out of legislatures, but the budgets have only begun ballooning. Experts estimate that between $6 billion and $10 billion will have to be spent simply to bring existing prisons up to snuff. Yet states surely cannot expect much help from the budget-cutting Federal Government. In short, there is an upper limit to how much imprisonment citizens will underwrite, despite the talk about cracking down on criminals...
...Palestinian question. With the April 25 deadline past, he hopes to get Israel and Egypt to intensify negotiations about autonomy for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His lieutenants hardly sound hopeful that much will be accomplished. There are worries in Washington that the Israelis may snuff out the diminishing hopes for progress in any negotiations by continuing the process of "creeping annexation" until it becomes a fait accompli. The situation, said one U.S. official last week, "requires presidential leadership to ward off the disasters down the road. I really don't know if Ronald Reagan...