Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion that every time we needed to show our muscle we threw big budget figures at potential adversaries seems to be waning at last. True, the new national security will cost more. But even the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, has called for caution in defense spending, more thought and imagination, fewer wasted dollars...
...three universities. He was for 37 years a minister of the pacifist Church of the Brethren. He worked as a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1960, and was on the staff of the liberal Brookings Institution for twelve years. Since 1976 Lefever has headed his own conservative think tank in Washington, the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "I'm a confirmed do-gooder," said Lefever at his Senate hearing. "My whole life has been oriented around human rights and humanitarian concerns...
Lefever's opponents believe the White House goofed in nominating him for the job. They are afraid that his confirmation would signal an official American indifference to human rights violations abroad, thus maybe even encouraging such offenses. Some committee members are troubled that Lefever's think tank accepted at least $25,000 from the Nestlé company after commissioning a study that turned out to support Nestlé's marketing of infant formula in developing countries (see following story). When Lefever told the committee he thought the human rights job offered only "an occasional opportunity to nudge...
...fast-developing and innovative defense industry-the seventh largest in the world. The weapons have been designed for Israel's own needs: the lightweight, high-powered UZI submachine gun, which has become a symbol of Israeli arms technology; the heavily armored and sharpshooting Merkava (Chariot) main battle tank, which can carry five infantrymen; and the highly maneuverable Kfir-C2 fighter-bomber. But Israel also sells increasing quantities of these and other weapons on the world market. At least 750,000 UZls have gone to 40 countries, and last week a new mini-uzi, much smaller but nearly as high...
...than ever before. Young Israelis still yearn to be jet pilots, but they also apply enthusiastically for the paratroopers, naval commando units, and groups like the crack Golani brigade, which has carried out many of the recent raids into Lebanon. Women, once rare in field forces, now work as tank and plane mechanics, serve in artillery and communication units and are sometimes posted to duty as drill sergeants...