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...managers are adept enough at this delicate diplomatic and military game to know when to call off the troops and strike a bargain. So far, however, U.S. allies seem comparatively unalarmed by Reagan's military responses. René Herrmann of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, a think tank in Paris, voices the cautious European diplomatic view: "The question is whether the U.S. risks trying to play too tough a game in a conflict that is basically second-rate...
Turning to Congress, Wickham accused the legislative branch of having "aggravated" problems surrounding another of the Army's headache projects, the M-1 Abrams tank. Deliveries of the AGT-1500C turbine engines for the huge (120,023-lb.) vehicles have been so slow that the Army has been forced to cannibalize the power plants of field-tested units and use them on tanks coming off the production line. Under Secretary of the Army James R. Ambrose estimates that this rip-out process has cost "well over a million dollars so far." Yet a House-Senate conference committee refused...
...cars, however, turned out to be less a salesman's dream than a mechanic's nightmare. Since they initially appeared in showrooms, they have been subjected to ten recalls, involving 967,603 vehicles (some were recalled more than once) for defects ranging from faulty fuel-tank clamps to cracked steering gears...
...claim is more than hollow rhetoric. If a black candidacy in the primaries motivates a large number of the South's more than 2 million unregistered blacks to get on the rolls, it could affect a close election. The Joint Center for Political Studies, a black think tank, estimates that the number of unregistered voting-age blacks in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Mississippi is greater than Reagan's total margin of victory...
...Canada Flight 143 was cruising smoothly at 39,000 ft. in clear skies above the Manitoba prairie when Pilot Bob Pearson saw a warning light blink on. The message: fuel in one tank had run out. Seconds later, one engine of the brand-new Boeing 767 coughed and died. As Pearson attempted to restart it, five more warning lights began to flash. Then, the twin-engine jet's other engine stopped. There was nothing but an eerie and chilling silence...