Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union can launch the first satellite, the first astronaut in space and the Second World War-winning T-34 tank, but it is behind -- perhaps as much as a decade -- in high-tech avionics, guidance systems and the whole range of electronics. But the Soviet designer is not stupidly proud. If someone has a better idea than he does, he accepts it. And that is what GRU activities in the West are all about...
...think about half the achievement in Soviet military power has been very heavily influenced by the West. I speak about Soviet tanks, antitank missiles, antiaircraft missiles, aircraft and submarines. Sometimes you see a Soviet tank and it's a genuine Soviet tank. But inside you can see the stabilizers for the tank guns, night vision, communications equipment and engines that owe their existence to Western technology...
...agreed to repay the Government $244 million in improperly charged expenses. Such a blackball would put heavy pressure on General Dynamics to fire the men, since 94% of the company's business comes from Pentagon projects, including the Trident submarine, the F- 16 jet fighter and the M-1 tank...
...sell a new defense project to Congress, but one of the most efficient is to link the system's future to the economies of regions represented by those who will be voting on it. A report issued by the Council on Economic Priorities, a liberal New York City think tank, indicates that is just what is happening with Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars. The states of Senators who are members of the Armed Services Committee or of Appropriations' Defense Subcommittee have received on the average $34 million in SDI contracts, six times the amount...
DIED. Rudi Gernreich, 62, innovative Austrian-born fashion designer whose attempts to free women's clothing from rigid structure and the tyranny of French couture resulted in youthful, boldly colored, free-flowing styles such as tank dresses, miniskirts, the tank-top bathing suit, the see-through blouse and--most controversial--the topless bathing suit; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The 1964 strapped, topless suit sold 3,000 copies, outraged the Kremlin and the Vatican and afterward overshadowed the reputation he deserved for more influential work...