Word: bomber
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Election Day: Did the Carter Administration cynically leak military secrets to help the President win re-election ? Or was it only releasing heartening defense news that was rapidly becoming public anyway? And more important, was the national security really damaged by disclosure that the U.S. is developing a Stealth bomber that may be able to elude Soviet radar? Although still incomplete, the reconstruction of how the news came out makes a fascinating-and disturbing-tale...
...Republican opponent, Jim Bradshaw, 40, last week could hold the attention of 300 people at the Woodhaven Country Club who otherwise would have been watching the televised season's opener between the archrival Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins. Said Bradshaw: "Jim Wright voted against the B-1 bomber. Jim Wright voted for funding the Panama Canal treaty. Jim Wright voted to give foreign aid to a Marxist government in Nicaragua. It's time for a change...
...fact that he campaigned vigorously in 1976 to trim the Pentagon budget, and early in his Administration boasted of cutting some $7 billion from the defense spending urged by Ford in his last year in office. As Reagan charges, Carter canceled such key weapons programs as the B-l bomber and the neutron warhead. In rebuttal, Carter claims that the B-l was obsolete and that his Administration is considering developing a more effective manned bomber...
Republicans regard the Carter-Mondale tactic as dirty politics. But Reagan professes no unease and refuses to make a point-by-point rebuttal to the attempt "to portray me as a combination of Ebenezer Scrooge and the mad bomber." Instead, says Reagan, he will concentrate on attacking Carter's record as President...
...tangle of alliances and hostilities that is the history of the Resistance. He is particularly skilled at portraiture, notably the grand, absurd, indomitable figure of De Gaulle, at one point trying to rewrite General Eisenhower's D-day speech; at another point refusing to fly in an American bomber until it was repainted with French colors; and finally insisting that a French car, not a U.S. Jeep, be found to carry him into liberated Paris. Clearly the author admires the French and their great hero with all of his nationalistic absurdities. But Schoenbrun...