Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French air force. "They are cheap, simple to use -- and very effective." The sad fact is that any country with a pesticide factory is capable of making deadly gases. Iraq, for example, produced some of its chemical weapons at a pesticide plant at Samarra. "It's a relatively low-tech option," says Graham Pearson, director of Britain's defensive chemical-warfare program at Porton Down. "And Third World countries appear able to obtain aircraft and bombs that they can then modify to deliver the chemical weapons...
...program of perestroika, the world's largest military machine faces unprecedented political pressure to slim down, open up and rethink its basic strategy. At the same time, the armed forces are plunging into the electronic age in a frantic drive to narrow the West's lead in high-tech weaponry. Taken together, the changes could revolutionize every aspect of Moscow's military philosophy, from the deployment of troops in Eastern Europe to its attitude toward nuclear...
...switch to high-tech weapons will send Soviet military costs soaring. The T-80 tank costs nine times as much to produce as the older T-64 and is more expensive to maintain. Qualified personnel will be needed to operate the new equipment -- at higher training costs. Soviet procurement practices, moreover, are skewed toward the purchase of proven products rather than sophisticated new equipment. "They have no problem churning out tanks," says Jonathan Eyal, a research fellow at Britain's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies. "But they do have a problem keeping pace with technological advancement...
...this year. Haitian illegal immigrants and Cuban Marielitos are among the supporting victims and sleaze artists in a multiplot story featuring a ruthless but effective cop whose beat is long- unsolved murders. A.E. Maxwell's equally colorful Just Enough Light to Kill (Doubleday; 254 pages; $16.95) blends Soviet high-tech espionage with striking tableaux of Latin American immigrants paying a few hundred dollars to be herded like cattle across the U.S. border and Hong Kong Chinese anteing up thousands to be ferried door to door...
Recently he has been playing with Nintendo, the video game that is the Hula-Hoop of the 1980s. Nintendo draws millions of children into the high- tech, button-pressing world that may be their workaday future. Sometimes John David plays alone, but when his five-year-old brother Christopher is home, the two of them compete against each other. The boys sit together in an armchair pushed close to the television set, their fingers moving expertly across the buttons on a palm-size control panel. They are mesmerized...