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...duel was as fierce as an aerial battle. On one side was United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney unit, long the sole source of jet engines for the F-15 and F16, the Air Force's two top fighters. On the other was General Electric, which has been struggling to win some of that lucrative business. At issue was one of the biggest defense prizes ever: a long-term contract to build more than 2,000 engines for the F-15 and F16. The award could ultimately be worth $17 billion over the 20-year life of the engines. Following...
...waves are bristling with blades, and gyrating, swooping chase sequences have become as common as the earthbound, four-wheeled variety. ABC's new series Blue Thunder (derived from the movie of the same title) features a mean, blackbottle fly of a police chopper that is essentially an aerial machine gun equipped with supersnooping devices. Next week CBS launches Airwolf, about a supersonic CIA attack helicopter that is invisible to radar. One of its pilots, Ernest Borgnine, decorously refers to it as "she," as if it were a more temperamental version of the flying...
...nearby villages. Last July Soviet forces shot as many as 30 elders in the provincial capital of Ghazni. In October, after a series of raids on convoys outside Kandahar, the Soviets left some 100 civilians dead in nearby settlements. At times over the past year, they have mounted aerial and artillery attacks on Istalif, Herat and other cities, but without destroying the rebels' resiliency. Soon after the Soviet and Afghan government forces announced last August that they had "pacified" Kandahar, the Mujahedin took to the rooftops with loudspeakers and for hours taunted the government soldiers, urging them to defect...
...threaten us that "measures will be taken" to insure that no similar protest could take place at the college. Perhaps Dean Epps would like to make visiting war criminals feel more at home by stationing death squads equipped with M16s on campus, or arrange reconnaissance flights followed by aerial bombardment of outdoor rallies such as the one which preceded the Weinberger protest. Weinberger and his underlings in the Harvard administration would no doubt like to treat their opposition in the U.S. the way they do in EI Salvador where anyone who breathes a word of protest would be summarily seized...
Emil Schulthess, an internationally renowned photographer, has produced a remarkable book of aerial views that portray his native country in all its contradictory beauty. For Swiss Panorama (Knopf; $50) he used a specially designed remote-control camera suspended from a helicopter to make color pictures that are almost three-dimensional in effect. The pictures, some shot from above 20,000 ft., are breathtaking in clarity and detail; in a shot of the legendary Piz Palü, fresh marks of alpinists' climbing irons are clearly visible. Swiss Panorama ranges from cloud-topped peaks and neatly patterned farmland to well-preserved...