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...arms from the Soviet Union, though it must be having some doubts about the quality of the merchandise these days. China announced two weeks ago that it would provide the U.S.S.R. with food, tea, cigarettes and other consumer goods worth $730 million. In return it wants to buy combat aircraft, missiles and tanks...
Until now, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder has been the most visible noncandidate, crisscrossing the country giving speeches, wooing deep pockets in Hollywood and devising a catchy slogan -- "the New Mainstream." He's even survived what might have been a fatal blunder after flying on a state-owned aircraft to visit former model Patricia Kluge, recently divorced from one of the wealthiest men in the U.S. For good measure, Wilder appointed Kluge, star of the soft-porn movie Nine Ages of Nakedness, to the board of visitors of the University of Virginia. But running in a race without challengers means never...
...missions over Kuwait and Iraq. The Air Force is scheduled to choose between the two models on April 30. The winning team could take home an order for 750 planes priced at $35 million apiece. (A Navy version designed for carrier operations could yield orders for an additional 550 aircraft.) "It's a hell of a competition," says a congressional staff member. "It should be, considering the cost...
...planes, which cost over a billion dollars to develop, easily exceed the Air Force's stringent performance requirements. Both can cruise at supersonic speeds without having to resort to fuel-gulping afterburners, and they have twice the range of the F-15. The aircraft use advanced computerized controls and simplified screens to lighten the pilot's work load. Both candidates incorporate the latest radar-evading "stealthy" features. They pack as much as 20 times the data-processing power of an F-15 for spotting hostile aircraft before being seen themselves...
Ambitious travelers journey about 30 miles toward Basra to see the remains of a convoy of fleeing Iraqi vehicles destroyed by allied aircraft. At the Iraqi border last week, tragedy was replaced by joy. Several thousand Kuwaitis were kidnapped by Iraqi soldiers in the last days of the occupation; last Friday Baghdad suddenly released about 1,175, transporting them back to Kuwait City in trucks bearing the seal of the Republican Guard. Most had been held at a military barrack near Basra, squeezed in so tight that they were forced to take turns sleeping. For the first three days, they...