Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House last week attacked Stanford University in a strongly worded letter for stipulating that a proposed Reagan Presidential complex not include a public affairs center which would have been run by the Hoover Institution, a loosely affiliated political think tank...
Nevertheless, the chiefs went into "the Tank," their inner sanctum in the Pentagon, to decide on a joint position. They split: Vessey and Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Gabriel leaned in favor of the plan, while Army Chief of Staff Edward C. Meyer, whose service had responsibility for the Pershing II and who therefore had a proprietary interest in seeing it continued, leaned against it, along with Chief of Naval Operations James Watkins. The chiefs' equivocal report never reached the President, who had asked...
Israeli-supplied conventional arms sales and licensing agreements with South Africa include the following: Reshef-class gunboats armed with Gabriel missiles; Dabur coastal portal boats; hardened steel for South Africa's armored corps; self-propelled 105 mm howitzers; air-to-air rockets; anti-tank missiles; assault rifles; radar bases; and surveillance equipment...45 percent of Israeli arms exports between 1970 and 1979 were naval ships. South Africa purchased 35 percent of the ships exported...
...Halfway between a university and an engineering firm" is how Senior Vice President Raymond S. Nickerson describes Cambridge think tank Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), co-ordinates of the Project Intelligence program between Harvard and the Venezuelan government (see above story...
...dwelling in Great Falls, Mont., costs about $8 "for access to the world," says U S West Chief Executive Jack MacAllister, while it costs $30 to install and maintain the connection. Even if that basic monthly bill doubles, to $16, it is "still only about the price of a tank of gasoline," he says...