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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Show Goes On After All | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cripplers In The War Zone | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: That Alarming Soviet Buildup | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...fast Soviet engines that power the North Korean spy boats along the coast. Park is also pressing the U.S. to provide faster planes. Right now, his air force has 300 fighters, mostly F-86 Sabre jets, compared with North Korea's 450 fighters, most of which are MIG-15s and MIG-17s, with a sprinkling of MIG-21s. While South Korea awaits a promised squadron of Phantom F-4Cs, the U.S. has rushed 230 of its own fighter-bombers-mostly Phantoms and F106 Delta Darts-to five South Korean bases, expanded its air force personnel in South Korea from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Wave of Provocation | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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