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...over 30% while the Navy and Army rates have decreased by 40% and 50%" over the past three years, not counting the five accidents that have killed 16 since April 17, including one last Friday. And there are potential civilian consequences. Last fall, Diehl reports, a pair of B-52s "narrowly missed colliding" with an airliner, an incident apparently "hushed up." Diehl writes, "This business, which has always been dangerous, has become unnecessarily deadly...
...from the Central Highlands without much of a fight that touched off the final rout. In the last few weeks, he had shuttled from one villa to another, increasingly out of touch with his aides and allies, and with reality. He even speculated that bombing strikes by American B-52s might halt the NVA's onslaught. Hanoi also had visions of B-52s, but it was a mirage. Nothing could have persuaded the U.S. to resume the active fighting role it had relinquished after the Paris peace accords...
...idea has played a more central role in American civilization than progress. It was a combination of patriotism and technological innovation that was instilled in Eisenach as a child. In the first grade, he and his classmates in Mrs. Bumstead's class in Dayton, Ohio, would regularly hear B- 52s flying overhead, heading back to nearby Wright-Patterson Air Base. Each time, the kids' response was the same. ``We would stop whatever we were doing in class and clap...
...Arias, the drag queen! -- had shown up at the Supper Club, a party space in Manhattan's theater district. They were mixing with some of the high-concept personalities who have edged into more publicized realms. Like Lady Kier of Deee-Lite! (The recording group, something like the B-52s of house music.) Ricki Lake, the rising talk-show host -- look out, Oprah -- was chatting with John Waters, who starred her in his fondly remembered camp comedy Hairspray. And there was -- yes! -- Shannen Doherty, the Lucrezia Borgia of nighttime TV, the Kilimanjaro of problems, as skinny as Kate Moss these...
...attitude bolstered by the dramatic success of Western air forces in the Gulf War. There is little question that modern U.S. fighters, rapidly brought up to 500, can quickly clear the skies of North Korea's large but obsolescent squadrons of MiG-21 and MiG-17 fighters. B-52s would carpet-bomb Pyongyang's advancing troops 12 hours after they crossed the DMZ. While there are only 72 U.S. F-16s in the South now, warplanes from Japan, Alaska and nearby carriers would arrive within hours of an attack, including the cream of the U.S. arsenal: radar-eluding F- 117A...