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Thirty years ago, a secret dinner at the Pentagon led to a flurry of consolidation in the defense industry. We hear the story of that so-called "last supper" and what it means for the Pentagon's $800 billion budget today.
(Archived document, may contain errors) 826 April 25,1991 I A1MERICA'S SPACE POHCX COu"ToMAJORREFoRMs INTRODUCTION The special Presidential Advisory Committee on the future of the U.S. Space Program, chaired by Norman Augustine, Chief Executive Officer of Martin Marietta Corporation, last December issued its Report that correctly identifies a number of the serious problems with America's space program As important as what it said is what it omitted. It failed to recommend substantial policy changes.
Who would have predicted, several decades ago, that privatization of space transportation would be happening by the second decade of the 21st century?
The military confrontation between the US and Russia puts peace and our very existence in more danger than ever before.
WASHINGTON -- When in 1977 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ended the "emergency" that had suspended India's democratic processes since 1975, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a former U.S. ambassador to India, puckishly said: Wonderful news -- the United States is no longer the world's largest democracy.