Word: 16s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miffed China and Israel but mollified angry aerospace workers by okaying the sale of $6 billion worth of F-16s to Taiwan and $9 billion worth of F-15s to Saudi Arabia...
...news editor for WBAI/Pacifica Radio, and Allan Nairn, a reporter for the New Yorker, who both spoke last night at the Kennedy School, witnessed the November 12 massacre and were nearly killed themselves by the Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers beat the reporters with the butts of their M-16s, fracturing Nairn's skull, The two journalists believe that it is only the fact that they are American that saved their lives...
...soldiers, in formation, raised their M-16s and took aim at the procession. They opened fire directly into the dense crowd of men, women and children. The Indonesian government claims that only 19 people were killed. Eyewitnesses to the massacre (and Amnesty International) say that about 100 were killed and hundreds more were wounded...
...secret Croatian-support group as they tried illegally to buy Stinger and Redeye antiaircraft missiles, night-vision goggles and other American combat goods. Seeking assault rifles, members of the group simply walked into Doug's Sport and Gun Shop in Calumet City, Ill., and ordered 3,000 M-16s...
...spending far too much on items that were all too flawed. Desert Storm quieted the critics, but now the pendulum is swinging back again. Air Force officials have confirmed the discovery of tiny fissures in the wing carry-through bulkheads on a number of its 1,875 F-16s ($13.7 million apiece), many of which will have to be modified or prematurely mothballed. They have also found breaks in 37 of their 97 high-tech B-1 bombers, adding to the troubles of the controversial and expensive ($300 million apiece) craft...