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Robert Dilger's life revolves around the machinery of war. A former fighter pilot who flew combat missions in Viet Nam, he had persuaded the Air Force to adapt a 30-mm Gatling antitank cannon to its A-10 Thunderbolt close air- support aircraft...
...year-old cleric who lives in near seclusion. For almost six years, it has been mired in a grinding and inglorious war that seems to drag on without end. Reduced to using 20-year- old technology against an enemy that boasts six times as much combat aircraft and four times as much artillery, it has lost an estimated 250,000 lives and still spends $7 billion a year to keep up the fight...
...Likewise the Democratic leader of the Maryland senate, Clarence W. Blount, 65; a chef from New London, Conn., Archie Dunbar, 24; an elder of the Gospel Temple Church of Christ in Manhattan, Joseph Baum, 65; one of Redford's high school classmates, Herman Bonner, 45, of Portsmouth, Va., an aircraft-maintenance manager who did not know he was kin to Redford until she began her research; and the owner of a trophy-making firm in Hillside, N.J., William Dennis Boughton, 52. Says Boughton: "I'll be going to see the joy of others...
...airline industry. Steven Udvar- Hazy, president of International Lease Finance, predicts that by 1990 about 25% of all planes will be leased, up from 10% today, a trend producing new alliances. GPA and McDonnell-Douglas have signed the first joint venture between a leasing company and an aircraft manufacturer, creating a firm called Irish Aerospace. It will have exclusive rights for leasing McDonnell-Douglas planes throughout the world...
National security is no longer defined by nuclear warheads and aircraft carriers. The larger forces now shaping our globe are communications, the state of technology, economic vitality and the international respect all that creates. Weapons are secondary...