Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colby has taken steps to reduce covert actions and direct more of the CIA'S energies back to its original mission of intelligence gathering. Spies still have a role in the modern CIA, but the U.S. now depends less on men and more on satellites, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft like the SR-71, and equipment that intercepts rival nations' secret communications. Such technical advances make the CIA highly successful in collecting military and other strategic information...
Some movies are like sloppy crimes-they leave easy clues all around. In the case of this walleyed exercise in terror, we are presented with a down-at-the-heels aircraft designer (Peter Haskell) accosted by a regal beauty down at the local unemployment office. All pretense of reality having been thus jettisoned, the beauty (Barbara Parkins) offers an unconventional proposal. Over a fancy meal, she suggests that they marry for strictly business reasons. The Immigration Department is hassling her-beauty is no barrier when the Government sees its duty-and the only way she can stay in the country...
...clean the polluted Rhine and increase purchases of food products from The Netherlands. As in the past, the French have been raising the bogey of American dominance, arguing that if the YF-16 or YF-17 is chosen, Europe's aerospace industry may die. Certainly France's aircraft industry (employing 107,000 workers) and balance of payments will suffer if it loses the sale...
...anomie that propelled the ancient Greeks to embark on fragile craft in search of islands where life, far from the mainland tensions of politics and war, would be eternally serene. That urge-or illusion -has never been stronger than it is today in the U.S. and Canada, where with aircraft, power boats and well-laden wallets, romantics and hard-nosed investors alike can seek modern Happy Isles remote from the purgatory of urban-suburban life...
...sounded like the arrogant, politically potent Pan Am of yesteryear. Pan Am haughtily refers to its desired subsidy as a "national interest payment." But does it have a case for subsidy by any name? Should taxpayers in, say, Tulsa, Des Moines and Wichita (who do not see Pan Am aircraft at local airports) be called upon to keep Pan Am flying? Or should Pan Am simply be allowed to die, its profitable routes parceled out among other carriers and its unprofitable ones dropped...