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...fact, there is evidence that the military has made some good-faith efforts to solve the procurement problem. Navy Secretary John Lehman announced last week that he was seeking a second supplier for the superthrust F404 engine, which powers the F-18 fighter-bomber. Weinberger also showed a willingness to crack down. He told Congress that he would not ask for more money in fiscal 1985 to buy the Army's problem-plagued Sergeant York antiaircraft gun pending further tests, and indicated that the weapon might be terminated altogether. The Army had planned to buy 618 of the guns...
...bomber had already started to dive toward the Mojave Desert when a chase plane radioed to Co-Pilot Doug Benefield, "How are you doing, Doug?" Replied Benefield: "We may have to punch it. We have to punch." Those were his last known words. Command Pilot Richard Reynolds pulled the eject handle, flinging the cock pit and its three-man crew free of the plane just 9 sec. before it slammed into the ground. Two of the men escaped with injuries...
...Benefield, 55, chief test pilot for Rockwell International Corp., which builds the bomber, died of severe head wounds...
...Administration blames shipping problems and local construction delays for the fact that a protective steel entrance gate had not yet been installed and that the heavy-duty windows and doors for the building were still on order. Weinberger describes how much worse the devastation would have been had the bomber made it into the embassy building...
...overjoyed either with Mondale." They too remember the days of Jimmy Carter, whose vigorous human rights campaign and unusual arms control maneuvers irked them. Mondale may be more willing to talk to the Russians than the current President, may support the cancellation of the controversial MX missile and B1 bomber and advocate a major down-scaling of defense expenditures--but he is by no means a pushover as far as the Soviets are concerned...