Word: 5g
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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India, which has relied on the Soviet Union for most of its weapons, is trying to diversify its arms sources. It has entered into talks with the Northrop Corp. about being the first overseas customer for the F-5G Tigershark fighter plane and with another American company regarding the possible purchase of up to $1 billion worth of artillery and ammunition. But the purpose of Gandhi's trip was primarily to promote a greater understanding of each country's aims, which, Reagan noted, will bring "a rediscovery of how important we are to one another...
Airplane manufacturers fared only slightly better. Lockheed Corp. managed to increase its profits 51% to $51.8 million, but that was partly because of money it had saved by discontinuing the L-1011 jetliner program. Northrop Corp. lost $1.6 million because of start-up costs for its new F-5G Tigershark jet fighter...
During the 1980 presidential campaign, Candidate Reagan challenged that bipartisan policy. He said that President Carter had treated Taiwan shabbily, arguing that the U.S. had a continuing obligation to help defend Taiwan. Soon after taking office, Reagan was faced with a request from Taiwan for advanced F-5G jet fighters. Although the President later tried to mollify the Chinese by proposing instead to extend coproduction of the less sophisticated F-5E jets, he irritated Peking by sending Congress a proposal last month to sell $60 million worth of military spare parts to Taiwan...
...China's countervailing demand that all U.S. arms sales to Taiwan cease, the White House tried to split the difference. Taiwan could continue to get the F-5E, which it co-produces with Northrop, but could not have a successor plane, the F-5G, which can carry radar-guided missiles...
...Director William Casey and supported by General David Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Taiwan's current defense needs, they agreed, could be adequately served by additional sales of the F-5E fighter jet it now uses, rather than the new, more powerful F-5G it has been seeking.* The Poland crisis, and the desire for Peking's cooperation in the anti-Soviet propaganda drive, provided an opportunity for these advisers to convince the President that he should deny Taiwan's request for the more sophisticated plane. To placate Taiwan's supporters, conspicuously Reagan...