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Brown was partly responsible for killing the B70 bomber (too vulnerable to Soviet air defenses) and the Skybolt missile (too unreliable). He was also involved in decisions to go ahead with a more advanced land-based Minuteman missile, the C-5A air transport, early research on the B-1 and on'the F-111 fighter-bomber (an $8 billion mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NO LONGER A KID BUT STILL A WHIZ | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...leader of this party is a gentle spirit, dignified and impractical. To him there is nothing ridiculous in the sight of his men toiling along treacherous trails, weighted down by armor, struggling to transport an entirely useless cannon. He has brought his wife with him and his second in command's daughter. What begins as an obviously dangerous journey soon turns into a manifestly self-destructive one. The rafts built to navigate the river are inadequate to its currents. And then, of course, there are the Indians, always in the shadows, picking off stragglers. But the worst danger derives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Meditation on Madness | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bans the transport of the drug over state lines, four states including Indiana and Alaska have already approved the production and distribution of it within their boundaries...

Author: By Peter A. Nitze, | Title: Massachusetts May Legalize Laetrile | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

SUDAN. Pop. 18 million. Chief export: cotton. Religion: predominantly Islam. The armed forces consist of 53,000 men. President Jaafar Numeiry, who is vigorously antiCommunist, has lately been developing close ties with the U.S., which is supplying military transport planes to Khartoum. Numeiry is backing the Ethiopian rebels plaguing the Addis Ababa regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Playing the Horn, Moscow Style | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...testified to by many, many people who were in a position to know." Among other things, Waite adds, it seems profoundly implausible that in the absolutist Third Reich, anyone but Hitler could have exercised the authority to murder more than 6 million people, in the process employing badly needed transport facilities and millions of work hours. Helmut Krausnick, director of Munich's Institute of Contemporary History, has concluded: "The extermination policy was decided upon by Hitler ... The unleashing of the terror rested on Hitler's explicit orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just an Ordinary Man | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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