Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just when I noticed it was kind of a nice day out, a skinny kid popped out of a bush by the side of the path. He looked a little like the kids downtown, except he was wearing a tank top, a dog collar, and a funny pointed hat. Hoping he wasn't a guerrilla. I asked him where his coat...
...closely with General Secretary Yuri Andropov from 1964 to 1967, when, as a young research scholar, Arbatov joined the Central Committee's department in charge of relations with other Communist parties. Four years later, Arbatov founded the Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada, an influential policy-related think tank that studies all aspects of U.S. life. In an exclusive interview in his Moscow office last week with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof and Reporter Felix Rosenthal, Arbatov predictably blamed the U.S. for fueling the arms race. He stressed the Soviet Union's opposition to the MX missile...
High-priced military hardware--like the Pershing--makes Reagan Administration pulses pound with enthusiasm. The armsracing Californians who run the Pentagon have ushered in a host of shiny new weapons systems: the B-IB bomber, the MX missile, the M-1 tank, the F-18 fighter, and a whole military-industrial complex--full of other guns, planes, helicopters, ships and missiles. The Administration's emphasis on military technology has dramatically increased the Pentagon's already-bloated procurement budget. From 1981 to 1983, procurement spending rose nearly three times as fast as total defense spending. But because of incompetent management...
...tank, however, is the most egregious example of Pentagon profligacy. It costs three times as much as the M-60 tanks it's designed to replace, but the Army assures us it's "the best tank in the world." That's a dubious claim: the West German Leopard II outperformed the M-1 in competition, but the Army refuses to use a foreign tank. The M-1's much-touted Chobham armor is much more effective than previous armor, but it is so expensive that it's only being put on the front. The M-1's gas turbine engine...
...when attempting to call his wife Anna. Nowak finds out from the tinny operator's voice that all lines to Poland have been cut, because of a "military coup" (i.e. martial law.) Later, he first sees pictures of the military tank and checkpoints through the window of a television rental store, where all the sets are tuned to the same station. This startling, almost surreal image of history fragmented into ghostly slivers of flickering light illuminates the protagonist only distantly...