Word: 86d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold, at discount rates, tanks, guns and some 550 jet fighters, fighter-bombers and training aircraft to Yugoslavia. Upon departing from office. President Eisenhower left for John Kennedy a list of several programs he would want to review. Among them was a proposal for selling 130 F-86D jets to Yugoslavia for $10,000 each (original cost: about $345,000). The sale of those planes, listed as obsolescent (cries Texas' Knickerbocker: "The 'obsolete' F-86 is the same plane I'm flying"), was approved by the Kennedy Administration in March...