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...Japanese pilots found the American planes at Pearl Harbor parked wingtip to wingtip. The high brass had ordered this arrangement because it was easier to protect the aircraft from sabotage. Today we would call it Dense Packed...
...vote, Reagan summoned 76 Congressmen to the White House for a sales pitch from himself, Vice President George Bush and Weinberger. The President warned against turning the imminent Dec. 7 vote into another Pearl Harbor. Still, his enthusiasm for Dense Pack was far from contagious. He called it "the option with the least warts." Weinberger worked the telephones hard, pressing Congressmen to support all of the MX funding. He called one Representative three times, finally getting an impatient reply: "I'm a no vote. If I changemy mind, I'll call...
During the debate, anti-Dense Pack Congressmen had a field day ridiculing the unproven "fratricide" and silo-hardening theories. "Pearl Harbor was the original Dense Pack," said California Democrat John Burton, reversing Reagan's argument. Iowa Republican James Leach called the attempts to harden silos beyond anything ever achieved "a public works project for the cement industry...
Like an Old Testament prophet, Deane Hinton, our Ambassador to El Salvador, confronted the oppressors with their evil [Nov. 22]. He got the usual response: instead of repentance, a hardness of heart. The Salvadoran businessmen deserve the destruction that is coming upon them. Leon Schaddelee Ben ton Harbor, Mich...
...country famed for its advanced technology, the vote-counting ceremony in Tokyo last week had a strangely archaic flavor. White-jacketed party workers carried cardboard boxes full of ballots across the floor of the city's cavernous harbor-front International Trade Fair exhibition hall. They tallied 974,150 mail-in votes by hand, then stuffed the ballots into green plastic baskets for a final scrutiny by election referees. Finally came the announcement that 58% of the members of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party (L.D.P.) had picked Yasuhiro Nakasone, 64, to succeed Zenko Suzuki, 71, as their president. When...