Word: 16s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombers. The 1985 budget also seeks $5 billion to buy 40 MX missiles. Congress provided $6.2 billion for the MX over the past twelve years, but until fiscal 1984, the money was only for development. Also requested: 48 F-15 fighters (at $22 million apiece), 150 F-16s (at $15.1 million) and 720 M-1 tanks (at $2.1 million). There was a new, high-tech entry: $1.8 billion in seed money for President Reagan's Star Wars plan to develop a space-based system capable of intercepting missiles targeted...
Pratt & Whitney's product, the F100, had tended to stall when it was first placed on F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft in the 1970s; the engine is considered responsible for about one-third of the 35 F-16s that have been lost in crashes...
...that includes the Marines' Camp Lejeune and the Army's Fort Bragg. This month, 2,000 troops returned from Grenada, and 1,800 Marines, some aboard the Iwo Jima, came back from Lebanon. They stepped into a familiar dream. Bands played. Infants were tweaked. Couples swung M-16s out of the way and hugged. The troops were home. They had served, and served well...
...pulled up and its driver began taking pictures of the building; one guard later pronounced this "kind of strange." Finally, the red Mercedes truck with the fatal bomb rumbled through an iron gate left "invitingly" open, cruised at about 30 m.p.h. past two sentries, who had unloaded M-16s on their shoulders, and then steered between a pair of iron pipes that had been placed outside headquarters not to stop terrorists but to guide traffic. The only impediment was a roll of barbed wire that "just made a popping sound" as the truck drove through, "like someone walking over twigs...
...their bearded commander. "For the people of this town, you are the revolution," he warned them one evening last week. "Be polite. Ask permission before entering a house." But as soon as the leader departed for his camp deep in the nearby hills, the youths slung their M-16s over their shoulders and hauled out a tape deck. "The best beaches have just been liberated," exulted a young guerrilla while strutting to a Billy Joel tune. "There won't be a problem about where to spend this weekend...