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...million apiece. The plane will be more sophisticated in both wing design and electronic equipment than the 1977 version scrapped by Carter. It is expected to start rolling off the assembly lines of Rockwell International by 1986. Meanwhile, some of the nation's 349 aging B-52s, whose ability to penetrate Soviet air defenses has been steadily eroding, will be modernized to serve as carriers for the cruise missile. Reagan also declared that research would continue on an entirely new bomber, the "Stealth," whose design enables it to thwart enemy detection by means of its streamlined shape and radar...
Students questioned randomly in a door-to-door poll also opposed, by 56 per cent to 18 per cent, Reagan's approval of plans to build a fleet of B-1 bombers to replace aging B-52s...
...Order production of about 50 new bombers based on the B-1 design that Carter had scrapped. This aircraft, capable of penetrating Soviet air defenses, would bridge the gap between the aging B-52s and a new radar-evading "Stealth" craft to be perfected later. Fifty B-1s would be about half the number the Pentagon wants...
...open here, even natural, although its military trappings are somewhat muted. From a booth on the main street, which has the bustle of a frontier town, Green Berets offer classes in first aid. At an Air Force exhibit near by, Scouts watch a ten-minute film about B-52s and climb into a cockpit for a simulated flight. The National Rifle Association, which has mounted a nationwide campaign against gun controls, is less subtle: a Scout learns how to shoot and how to cook the game he kills. More popular are lessons in how to pan for gold. "There...
...from the open window's the B-52s and their tender ballad. "Rock Lobster, blare. That isn't all: people are playing catch with beer kegs, tossing them out the third floor window to friends waiting on the ground. And that isn't all; inside the Winthrop House suite they are playing football, tackle football, and there is a large bole developing in one wall. When the House Master orders them to stop, they offer him a beer: when the senior tutor calls the police, someone hears the sirens, gets the idea there is a fire, and empties every extinguisher...