Word: tomahawk
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...Carter Administration, allied ministers met in Brussels and committed their governments to the so-called two-track decision. NATO would proceed toward deployment, beginning in late 1983, of 572 new intermediate- range American missiles in Europe to offset the SS-20s. Five NATO members would accept batteries of Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles, and West Germany would also permit the upgrading of the Pershing I to the Pershing II, which has more than twice the range and a much more accurate warhead. At the same time, the U.S. would propose negotiations with the Soviets on a scaled- back deployment...
...Atlanta Braves have followed the lead of several other Major League clubs this season and returned to their uniform style of old. For the first time in many years, the Braves sport a tomahawk on the front of their jerseys. Where did the Braves play the last year they boasted that symbol...
...four decades ago, are still, in the age of Star Wars, compelling instruments of destruction. They will hurl a projectile that is the equivalent in weight of a compact pickup truck out over the horizon to a target 26 miles away. The two-year refitting also added long- range Tomahawk missiles, medium-range Harpoon missiles and four 20-mm Gatling- type guns designed to throw out a "wall of lead" to stop incoming missiles. Combined with her 13.5-in. armor plate and 212,000 horsepower, the weapons give the Navy an asset that amounts to more than just a national...
...Soviets climbed on an old and familiar hobbyhorse by insisting that American intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) capable of hitting the Soviet Union be counted--and accordingly limited--as "strategic" weapons. All American Pershing II missiles in West Germany and Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles in Western Europe, plus many carrier-based and land-based tactical aircraft in Europe and Asia, would be counted as strategic. Soviet medium-range bombers, on the other hand, would not be counted, nor would the Kremlin's intermediate-range missiles, most notably the triple-warhead SS-20, even though they could wipe out Western...
With the speed of a Tomahawk missile, the charges of improper billings against General Dynamics, the nation's largest defense contractor, continue to mount. Last week the Pentagon announced that a team of 20 auditors had determined that the company had overcharged the Government by $244 million during the past twelve years for "overhead" and administrative costs. The Pentagon has already withheld $120 million in payments and intends to demand the additional $124 million "to adequately protect the Government's interest." The new figures represent another disclosure in a spreading investigation that has turned up such charges to the Government...