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Bush announced in Texas his approval of a sale of 150 F-16s (which are made in the state) to Taiwan, thereby decimating a treaty with China...
...mothballed anyway if Andrew hadn't got to it first. Bush wanted to spend $480 million rebuilding Homestead. Why not use the money to rebuild Floridians' actual homes? And what the Pentagon won't take, someone else will buy: 72 F-15s to provide jobs for Missourians, 150 F-16s for the Texans -- with Saudi Arabia and Taiwan footing the bills...
Then there's the arms-for-export approach: If the U.S. can't afford any more high-tech weapons, find some Third World potentate who can. Saudi Arabia gets its F-15s; Taiwan gets F-16s (in violation, incidentally, of a 1982 agreement signed with China). Why not atom bombs for Ciskei? Cruise missiles for Serbia? Lofty moral objections aside, one problem with the export approach is that it puts the U.S. government in the unseemly position of pimping for the military- industrial complex -- using taxpayers' money, for example, to set up arms fairs abroad. The other problem is that...
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...
...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...