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Within hours of the reinstatement, the Navy awarded General Dynamics $658.3 million to build the twelfth Trident nuclear-powered submarine. Pyatt said the firm will also soon receive nearly $500 million in additional orders for surface-to-air missiles and other weapons systems...
...jeopardy. American hawks, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, accuse the Soviets of violating SALT II; in a private report to the President that was leaked last week, Weinberger urged that the U.S. respond with its own selective violations, including not dismantling missile-carrying Poseidon submarines as a newer Trident sub is put into service...
...contortions were prompted by the fact that on May 20 a new Trident submarine is due to slip into the sea off Connecticut. Its 24 ballistic missiles would put the U.S. over the SALT II ceiling. Although Reagan once called that treaty "fatally flawed," he again decided to preserve the informal agreement by both superpowers to abide by its provisions; he ordered that two older Poseidon subs be scrapped. SALT's critics, most notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, urged that the old subs be mothballed and kept ready as a protest against alleged Soviet breaches. But violating SALT II would...
...Cadbury Schweppes in April. He will spearhead the confection-and-beverage company's four-year plan to cut costs by closing some factories and shrinking its work force 10%. Also on the agenda: integrating Adams, which Cadbury bought from Pfizer for $4.2 billion, gaining brands such as Trident, Halls and Dentyne...
...Lassiter said. “This will kill us.” Bryson, however, continued to maintain perspective. “I’m just going to keep on chewing—one bite at a time,” he said. “Chewing Trident after meals really helps...