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...been frequently used against Persian Gulf shipping since the four-year-old war between Iran and Iraq extended to gulf waters last March. In recent months, however, a number of publications, quoting military analysts, have charged that the missile often misses its target and that its 363-lb. warhead frequently fails to explode on impact. Aerospatiale had endured such criticism in silence, the ad indicated, partly out of "respect for the seamen who lost their lives during the fighting." Now, however, the firm could wait no longer to refute the "inaccurate information ... to set the record straight...
According to Aérospatiale, no less an authority than the Sheffield's commander, Captain Sam Salt, has vouched for the missile's effectiveness. "I was there," the ad quotes Salt as saying, "and there is no doubt that the warhead exploded." In addition, Aérospatiale claims that as of July 10, Exocets had been used successfully against 112 ships in the Persian Gulf, a statistic that has not been independently confirmed. Of 103 cases examined, the ad stated, "57 ships either sank, ran aground or were towed home for scrapping; damage to the other...
...blow-job as a metaphoric image of mankind's embrace of the nuclear warhead, the psycho-sexual elements of penis-envy described by peace activist Helen Caldicott, is matched by Rick and his friends' contradictory vision of the female. Rick cheers when the auto-mechanic raises a toast to "women with big tits" but through deep self-examination is led to reject the ephemeral and ultimately self-destructive zeitgeist of his own sex drive (read: the arms race...
...Missile-experimental," a large, ten-warhead ICBM that the U.S. is developing as an eventual successor to the Minuteman and as a counter to the Soviet...
...number of reasons the U.S. cannot and should not remove or even freeze missiles deployed in Europe without adequate Soviet concessions. It was the Soviets who upset the balance in nuclear weapons in the key region of the world covered by INF, principally by the deployment of their triple-warhead SS-20 missiles. Therefore the U.S. and its West European allies are justified in deploying the Pershing IIs and Tomahawks in the absence of a negotiated settlement in INF. Also, the Soviet Union cannot be allowed to veto the implementation of a collective decision of the Western Alliance. Nor should...