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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flights practiced by both superpowers, have become increasingly common in the past year, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology. In the early 1980s the Alaskan Air Command intercepted only ten to 15 Soviet scout flights annually, but already this year U.S. F-15s have confronted 20 Bears. Each Soviet bomber is armed with as many as ten cruise missiles with a range of 1,500 miles; from Alaskan airspace, these weapons could reach U.S. missile sites in the Dakotas and Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: Arctic Bears On the Prowl | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Lookout is the entry-level position for nine- and ten-year-olds. They can make $100 a day warning dealers when police are in the area. Sometimes the pint-size apprentice is rewarded with the most fashionable sneakers, bomber jacket or bicycle. The next step up the ladder is runner, a job that can pay more than $300 a day. This is the youngster who transports the drugs to the dealers on the street from the makeshift factories where cocaine powder is cooked into rock-hard crack. Finally, an enterprising young man graduates to the status of dealer, king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids Who Sell Crack | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...nearly ten years, the Stealth bomber has been a secret in name only. Despite a hidden budget and a classification higher than top secret, military analysts and aviation buffs have pieced together a remarkably detailed picture of the first nuclear bomber designed to be almost invisible to enemy radar. Last week the Air Force acknowledged the plane's flying-wing shape for the first time. The Pentagon issued a drawing of the so-called B-2 and announced that the bomber will make its maiden flight sometime this fall in a 30-mile run between Palmdale and Edwards Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: First Peek at a Stealthy Plane | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...series of raids on U. S. military computers is traced to a hacker in Hannover, West Germany. -- First peek at the Stealth bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...seller. The compact engine is well suited to the new generation of shorter-range planes, like Boeing's 737-300, which airlines are using on their growing number of hub-and-spoke routes. The core of the CFM56, originally a top-secret design intended for the B-1 bomber, was the most advanced available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Make Good Things for Flying | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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