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...potential consequences of rain-forest destruction became more widely known, saving the Amazon became the cause of 1989. In New York City, Madonna helped organize a benefit concert called "Don't Bungle the Jungle," which also featured the B-52s and the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. Xapuri, the remote town where Mendes lived and died, has been besieged by journalists, agents and pilgrims. Robert Redford, David Puttnam and other prominent moviemakers have sought the rights to film the Mendes story...
...swanlike aircraft is designed to penetrate Soviet air defenses, unleashing nuclear-tipped missiles at targets deep inside the country. But skeptics lampooned the B-1B -- at $283 million a copy the most expensive plane in aviation history -- as an unnecessary and probably unworkable interim successor to the aging B-52s, and in 1977 President Jimmy Carter scuttled the project. Newly elected Ronald Reagan revived the B-1B in 1981, ordering 100 of the bombers, but as production approaches the halfway point, critics in the Pentagon and elsewhere are decrying the plane as something of a turkey, a "flying Edsel...
Normally, a report that the U.S. Air Force had slipped a month or two behind schedule in outfitting some B-52s with cruise missiles would hardly have stirred a ripple in either Washington or Moscow. But in diplomacy as in comedy, timing is everything, and the timing of the report leaked by Administration officials raised strong suspicions that the real reason behind it was superpower politics: a holding action to keep alive the somewhat shaky prospects for a summit meeting this fall between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...some 123 B-52s have been equipped with cruise missiles capable of hitting the Soviet Union in a nuclear strike. When the Air Force finishes sticking a pod of the missiles on the 131st bomber, the U.S. will exceed the limits imposed by the 1979 SALT II treaty. Some Air Force officials had initially suggested that the limit would be passed about mid-November, before the two superpower leaders might have picked up where they left off at last year's Geneva summit...
...Tokyo summit last week, Reagan declared his intention to break the SALT II treaty later this year as the Air Force increases the number of B-52 heavy bombers outfitted with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. For the past five years, the Air Force has been converting B-52s to carry the low-flying self-guided cruise missile. So far, more than 100 have been modified, and conversions are running at about one every three weeks. At that rate, the U.S. will violate the overall 1,320 limit on ballistic missile launchers and bombers carrying cruise missiles by December...