Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weapons Policy. The M-l Abrams tank, which went into operation this spring, has been proudly described by the Pentagon as "the keystone of the U.S. Army modernization program." According to various experts, the new tank illustrates either everything that is right or everything that is wrong with U.S. weapons policy. More likely it illustrates both at once. Though the M-l still has some technical problems, veteran tankers who have driven it say it is a superb machine, better than anything the Soviets can field. The M-l can whip around battlefields at 45 m.p.h., fire accurately...
...reformers' contentions are open to dispute. Unless the U.S. proposes to match the Soviets tank for tank, it must rely on high-technology weapons to "fight outnumbered and win," as the Army's official field manual puts it. Still, the reformers have caught the ear of an influential group of legislators: Cohen, Hatfield and Alaska's Ted Stevens among the Senate's controlling Republicans; Hart, Nunn and Michigan's Carl Levin among Democratic Senators; Republicans Jack Edwards of Alabama, Newton Gingrich of Georgia and New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo in the House. By immersing themselves in the technical arcana...
...November 1980, residents of the Denver suburb of Northglenn began noticing the pungent smell of gasoline throughout their homes. Explosions began lifting 200-lb. manhole covers off the ground. An investigation showed that the gas had leaked from the underground tanks of a nearby Chevron service station and found its way into the water table as well as sewer lines serving six residential blocks. Forty-one families in the area, which residents dubbed "Gasoline Alley," sued Chevron for damages. Last week the oil company settled out of court for what could amount to a record $6 million -about three times...
...results include: The XM-1 tank, which costs, in constant dollars, seven times as much as the Sherman tank of World War II, yet whose turbine engines cannot tolerate dust; the command-control-communications-intelligence network, designed to control military maeuvers from a central point, which works, under ideal conditions, 38 per cent of the time; the TOW missile, launched by a soldier, which demands that he stand absolutely still in the middle of a battlefield for ten seconds while guiding his warhead at a far-off tank; missiles guided by t.v. cameras that destroy fenceposts as often as enemy...
...Union President William W. Winpisinger bluntly: "The most highly industrialized nation on earth is in danger of becoming a nation of industrial illiterates who do not know how to stop a running toilet, replace a burned-out fuse or identify anything on a car more complicated than the gas-tank...