Word: 1s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such was the military-industrial reaction last week to Jimmy Carter's stunning and almost wholly unexpected decision to kill the Air Force's request for 244 swing-wing B-1 bombers. The B-1s were to have replaced the aging U.S. fleet of 330 B-52s-a few of which are older than some of the men who fly aboard them. In contrast, there was jubilation among liberals like New York Representative Jonathan Bingham and Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. who have long argued that the B-1 is an outlandishly expensive dinosaur. Iowa Democrat John Culver...
...announcing his decision prior to its vote on the B-1 funds. Only 48 hours before Carter dropped his bombshell, the House had beaten back, by a vote of 243 to 178, an amendment to delete from the defense budget $1.5 billion for production of five B-1s...
...probably will for months," cabled Bernstein. "Major General Zia-Ur, who dissolved Parliament, now says elections will not be held until 1977. Strategic points like the Bangladesh radio station are sealed off with barbed-wire fences and guarded by small groups of rather bored soldiers armed with M-1s and machine guns. In the countryside, sporadic gunfire can be heard at night, and there are reports of continued fighting between pro-and anti-Mujib factions in the army. The political violence has unleashed a wave of bloodletting among rival satraps in rural areas, who see the confusion as an opportunity...
...million and may rise to $100 million before the B-1 could become operational in 1981. After two more prototypes are built and further tests are completed by 1976, Congress will have to decide whether to take the advice of the Air Force and build 241 more B-1s...
...submarines. The Navy wants ten Tridents to start replacing the smaller, slower Polaris-Poseidon submarines by 1978. Both houses voted to continue the B-1 bomber program as well, though they disagreed on how much should be authorized for next year. The Air Force plans to buy 244 B-1s by 1980, at a cost of $15 billion, to replace the aging...