Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Middle East Arms. Carter wanted to sell modern fighter aircraft to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel, arguing that the package deal would enhance Egypt's chances of negotiating with Israel and would minimize Saudi objections to such a move. Despite strong opposition, particularly from the powerful Israeli lobby, the Senate voted to approve the arrangement...
...government has issued a price list for defectors from the North: from $10,300 for a private to $103,000 for a general. Those who bring military hardware along with them qualify for huge bonuses: Seoul offers $5.7 million for a North Korean warship and $1 million for an aircraft, but only $60 for a carbine. On top of the bonuses, Seoul promises to take care of defectors for the rest of their lives...
...Taiwan employ the same system in competing for defectors. Prices in Taiwan for Communist pilots range from 6,000 taels of gold (worth about $900,000) for a defector flying a late-model TU-16 bomber to 500 taels (about $75,000) for a pilot with an obsolete cargo aircraft. So far, four pilots have qualified for rewards, the latest in July 1977. Mainland China offers higher prices - up to 7,000 taels (about $1,050,000) for a Nationalist pilot in a Phantom fighter - but so far there have been no takers...
...Kvitungen, carrying six expert Norwegian seal hunters to and fro between half a dozen uninhabited islands. Snapping at their heels was the 500-ton trawler Rainbow Warrior, crewed by 14 militant ecologists. Bringing up the rear were three boatloads of eager journalists, with reinforcements overhead in helicopters and light aircraft. At stake in the curious nautical exercise were the lives of some 6,000 generally inoffensive members of the species Halichoerus grypus, commonly known as the gray seal...
Just after World War II, admirals had been nervous about the stocky ingotsize metallurgist from Penn State who badgered them to scrap their old anti-aircraft guns and start developing surface-to-air missiles. Byrom won that round-and he won the Navy's Distinguished Civilian Service Award A few years later, by-the-book bosses at Koppers Co. fumed when they learned that their young executive disobeyed orders and put in a costly distillation process. When it proved enormously profitable, they hailed...