Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stock of Soviet-made weaponry, which includes some 250 T-55 tanks (200 more are on order) and scores of SA-2 and SA3 antiaircraft missiles. All this comes on top of a sizable arsenal acquired since the late 1960s-including French Mirage jets, British patrol boats and U.S. transport planes-that has made Peru the leading military power on South America's west coast...
...many left-wing members of Britain's ruling Labor Party, it would have been preferable for the government to auction off some of the crown jewels. Transport Union Chieftain Jack Jones condemned the action as the squandering of a national asset. Grumped one Cabinet member in private: "It's like selling the paintings off the wall." What prompted all this indignation was the government's proposal last month to sell a substantial share of its stake in British Petroleum Co., the nation's largest industrial concern...
...skepticism about many weapons projects, he was nicknamed Dr. No, for the James Bond character. He helped kill the B70 bomber, which was vulnerable to Soviet air defenses. He also was involved in two expensive mistakes: the FTX fighter-bomber, and the Air Force's C-5A transport, whose construction resulted in cost overruns of $2 billion...
Suppressed Eroticism. With a canny mix of showmanship and a keen instinct for his craft, Baryshnikov has devised solutions that infuse his Nutcracker with logic as well as magic. There is the traditional Christmas tree that grows onstage, a puppet show and a pretty pink and white sleigh to transport Clara and her prince. But there is no Sugar Plum Fairy and the cast is entirely adult. Clara, danced by Marianna Tcherkassky, hovers somewhere between child and woman. Her godfather Drosselmeyer, brilliantly portrayed by Alexander Minz, is both fatherly and aboil with suppressed eroticism. Baryshnikov accents mystery and the paradox...
...intrigued by their Rickerbacker-Lindbergh mystique. He gets upset that Harrison Salisbury of The New York Times went to Hanoi to write about the bravery of the Vietnamese in the face of awful destruction, after American planes had wiped out a North Vietnamese town thought to be an important transport center. A model operation, Wolfe calls it. What is Salisbury trying to do--sabotage the war effort? The next 20 pages drag on, like interesting patterns in punch tape, while Wolfe goes on even more enthusiastically describing how exhilarating it is to be young and a flyer, killing people...