Word: 16s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today guerrilla groups in Usulutan department loiter openly along the nation's most important highway, occasionally burning buses and trucks, collecting "revolutionary taxes" from travelers and delivering political lectures while Salvadoran army soldiers watch from a prudent distance. In one such incident, about 40 guerrillas armed with M-16s and older carbines blocked the road and burned a cotton truck and a Jeep. The marauders posed happily for pictures. About a mile away, a contingent of Salvadoran soldiers watched the billowing smoke rise in the sky. One of the soldiers, little more than a teenager, announced that his troop...
...competitive forces that dominate the global arms bazaar create a complex dilemma. If the U.S. turns down Venezuela's request for F-16s, what is to prevent the French from selling it Mirage fighters? If the Senate rejects the AW ACS sale, the Saudis have warned they will simply
...early July State Department Counselor Robert McFarlane was dispatched to see what the Israelis might offer. He came away with only a joint statement saying that "misunderstandings" about the raid had been "clarified." Then, just as the U.S. was about to release the F-16s anyway, the Israelis bombed Beirut. The shipment was held up once again and eventually 14 F-16s and two F-15s were included in the embargo. The hold lasted long enough to avoid embarrassing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who visited Washington in early August...
Nancy Reagan, in jeans and cowboy hat, was uncommonly at ease with reporters. The President touched on all the major national and world worries about the air controllers' strike, the neutron bomb, Poland, the F-16s for Israel. This week Secretaries Caspar Weinberger of Defense and Alexander Haig of State will fly out for discussions on the future of the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. On Tuesday Reagan will meet with Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman to discuss future cuts in federal spending. At the Biltmore, the executive offices of the President appear...
...aides flew to the summit in Canada with the matter still undecided. There they learned of an Israeli commando raid in Lebanon. That seemed to settle it. The following evening, Secretary of State Alexander Haig told reporters, "The President has decided to defer the shipment of F-16s to Israel. This matter remains under review...