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...arrival of one more refurbished B-52 bomber at Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth would hardly seem an event to create diplomatic turbulence. But when the aircraft linked up with the Strategic Air Command Seventh Bomb Wing last Friday, it became the 131st B-52 to be equipped with nuclear- tipped cruise missiles -- and that sent the U.S. right through the ceiling of the SALT II agreement. The unratified 1979 arms-control treaty allows the U.S. a total of 1,320 strategic nuclear delivery systems. If the number of bombers carrying cruises passes 130, the U.S. is obliged...
...Soviet offer to build two nuclear power plants. India already has the capability to build them and wants to avoid dependency on Soviet nuclear-fuel supplies. Indian officials took a cautious line on a Soviet offer to provide military equipment to counter any Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft that Pakistan might acquire from the U.S. They indicated that they would decide after it becomes clear what type of system Pakistan obtains...
...been categorized as kulaks. Deprived of their land and animals, they were hustled into collective farms by zealous Communist Party activists. Resistance was widespread. Babski bunty -- women's rebellions -- erupted among mothers who relied on the family cows to provide milk for their children. In some regions military aircraft were used to strafe villages in revolt. Peasants retaliated by slaughtering more than 40% of the nation's cattle. Tens of thousands of men and women were shot; one border police commander reported to the Politburo that the rivers were filled with bodies going downstream. Meanwhile, productivity plummeted; Soviet agriculture...
...Minnesota Republican did not say whatdocuments the committee was seeking. But inMoultrie, Ga., Maule Aircraft Corp. said it hadreceived subpoenas for records on four aircraftfrom the U.S. attorney's office in Macon as wellfrom the Senate committee. The four airplanesinclude one reportedly sold to rebels in Nicaraguaby a firm headed by retired Air Force Maj. Gen.Richard V. Secord...
...engineered a pronounced tilt in Pyongyang's Sino-Soviet policies toward Moscow. Just two months ago the North Korean President made a hastily arranged visit to the Soviet capital, his second in 29 months, for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviets provide North Korea with MiG-23 fighter aircraft and Scud surface-to-surface missiles. In return, they have acquired calling rights at the North Korean ports of Nampo and Najin and clearance for military reconnaissance flights from Vladivostok to the Soviet air base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. These arrangements are a major annoyance to Peking...