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- <text id=90TT2555>
- <title>
- Sep. 24, 1990: Hmmm. Guess It Needs Work. . .
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 24, 1990 Under The Gun
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 29
- Hmmm. Guess It Needs Work...</hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> U.S. aerospace planners call it "brochuremanship," the
- tendency of contractors to make wild claims about the
- effectiveness of proposed weapons systems. Now this liar's art
- has spread beyond Washington. A journalist back from the
- U.S.S.R. tells of Soviet military technicians who pitched a
- costly radar missile-tracking system to the Kremlin. On April
- 28, when the U.S. was scheduled to launch a space shuttle, the
- technicians triumphantly declared that the lift-off had been
- detected and tracked. Several hours later, NASA announced that
- the takeoff had been postponed.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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