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...Foreign aircraft bringing in blood, medical supplies, food, clothing and rescue equipment wait hours to be unloaded at the airport in Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia...
...face the most complicated task in the next Administration. Eight years after Reagan expanded the military budget 50%, persistent budget deficits would force Tower to shrink Pentagon accounts by one-fourth of what was planned in fatter times. That means eliminating Navy ships, Army divisions and Air Force fighter aircraft envisioned by Caspar Weinberger in the flush years of the early 1980s -- nearly $200 billion in weapons and research programs over the next four years. Said former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara last week: "The DOD is as close to bankrupt as you can get for a Government agency...
...particularly concerned about what appear to be systemic deficiencies with management personnel. The most serious findings of the inspections reflected a lack of management knowledge of, and experience with, complex commuter air carrier regulations as well as substandard administration of training and deficient aircraft inspection programs...
Shortcomings also were uncovered in maintenance and items were found during inspections, but not repaired, allowing aircraft to be "prematurely approved for a return to service...
...radar, it has been called the greatest achievement in military technology since the atom bomb. With the advent of the B-2 Stealth bomber, the U.S. could be on its way to maintaining military dominance well into the next century. Yet the B-2 is an enormously expensive aircraft with a dubious mission. It may pose more of a threat to the U.S. budget than to the Soviet Union...