Word: 15s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aging MiGs supplied to him before Egypt's break with Moscow in 1972. "Sadat made a very good case for arms," said Washington's Senator Henry Jackson, who is known as one of Israel's best friends in Washington. Although Sadat had asked for sophisticated F-15s and F-16s, the prospect was that Carter would recommend sale of 50 to 60 of the more modest F-5E fighter planes to Egypt...
...Israel. The Administration is considering a variety of options, one of which involves the sale of anywhere from 50 to 120 F-5E jet fighters over a period of up to three years; the F-5E is a supersonic aircraft, but is slower and less sophisticated than the F-15s the U.S. sold to Israel. For the moment, Washington is not inclined to make a decision until it can see whether the negotiations are getting anywhere. The U.S. is mindful of the fact that Syria, which has bitterly criticized Sadat ever since his trip to Jerusalem, is being well supplied...
...counselor" plans the "ripoffs" and "gang-hits" and commands the "gestapo" squads, which consist of the enforcers; the "armorer" keeps the weapons functioning in a safe place such as an abandoned building or a girl friend's apartment. Even automatic and semiautomatic firearms-like M-16s and M-15s-can be bought or stolen. Also available for bigger bashes are hand grenades many decibels above the zip guns of the old days...
...also has, in certain areas, an advantage created by sophisticated technology. American missiles are more accurate than their Soviet counterparts, American submarines are less noisy (thus more difficult to detect), and U.S.A.F. F-4s and F-15s are more versatile and powerful than the Russian MIG 21s and MIG 23s. What worries the analysts is that this superiority may not last, since the Soviets seem determined to narrow the quality gap. Moscow publishes no figures on its military expenditures, but the Soviet Union seems to be devoting an ever greater share of national spending to defense. Pentagon experts estimate that...
...reading period quiz is a little premature this term, but so was Joyce Maynard's autobiography. She's off in the New Hampshire woods, but as we, too, look backward, those happy times of Super-balls and X-15s seem gone beyond nostalgia--they're already history...