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McDonnell Douglas has a particular grievance against Airbus: using "predatory" practices in trying to persuade customers who had already ordered the MD-11 to switch to the A340 instead. Scandinavian SAS airlines had signed a letter of intent to buy a dozen MD-11s and had put down a deposit on the order. Then Airbus jumped in with attractive concessions to SAS on a deal (the details are undisclosed) to buy A340s. The airline has delayed its final decision...
...missiles from the present total of about 300 to approximately 1300 by the end of the decade. This increase of nearly 1000 warheads is considerably more than the 572 INF warheads the US will add to its European nuclear forces if it proceeds with the deployment of the Pershing 11s and GLCMs...
...fields contained a total of 180 underground silos, or launchers. One-third of the silos housed SS-19 rockets with multiple warheads; the other two-thirds housed older, less formidable SS-11s with single warheads. By satellite reconnaissance, the U.S. had kept careful count as the Soviets installed the SS-19s into one-third of the D-and-P silos. Nonetheless, officials in Washington?and particularly at the Pentagon? were worried about their future ability to distinguish MIRVed from unMlRVed rockets when mixed together as they were at D-and-P. The reason: except for a telltale domed antenna...
Numeiry's stance underscored the deep-rooted resistance in Arab lands to Communist ideology, as distinct from Soviet aid (TIME, Aug. 9). Egypt, for example, relies almost totally on Moscow for military equipment, including some sophisticated Soviet aircraft-a handful of MIG-235 and about 20 SU-11s the hottest planes in the Russian air force. Even so, President Anwar Sadat told a closed session of his Arab Socialist Union two weeks ago that Egypt would never become Communist, would never recognize an Arab Communist government and would continue to resist Communism throughout the Arab world. A prominent Egyptian...
There is one place in France where Americans still have some clout: Le Mans. For a while, after a trio of U.S. Ford Mark 11s finished one-two-three in last year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, officials talked about changing the rules of the race - to require that cars go 30 laps between fueling stops (the Fords needed gas every 20 laps) and have room inside for four persons (the Mark 11s could barely squeeze in two). They changed their mind when Ford threatened to pull out of this year's race altogether, leaving the field...