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Loving the Earth, on the other hand, is a bomber, simplistic to the point of being moronic. This book attempts to present information about the environment in a comprehensible and appealing manner. Unfortunately, it does so without telling a story. The result is a handbook for the budding environmentalist which is both uninteresting and condescending...
...Saddam Hussein tries to use the high-tech weapons he bought from France, he may have complaints about their effectiveness. Some French arms manufacturers, apparently worried that Saddam was not the most trustworthy client, programmed secret passwords into the computer-guidance systems of the fighter and bomber aircraft they sent to him, according to reports surfacing in Paris. Only the suppliers know the passwords, and unless they are keyed in, Iraqi guided missiles will not be able to reach their targets. Moreover, a Defense Ministry spokesman in Paris confirms that his country's warships carry transmitters that can jam French...
...Force F-15E fighter-bomber lifted off from a Saudi airfield, deadly Sparrow and Sidewinder air-to-air missiles glistened beneath its wings. Not far away, in the Persian Gulf, sailors on the battleship Wisconsin ran through training drills with their 32 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each capable of hitting targets 700 miles away with a 1,000-lb. conventional warhead. At a desolate desert site in northeast Saudi Arabia, tanks of the U.S. 1st Marine Division blazed away in live-fire exercises. In the last nerve-racking hours before "K-day" -- the U.N.'s Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq...
With the U.S. poised on the brink of war, it seemed an odd moment to shake up the nation's military-industrial complex. But that did not deter Defense Secretary Dick Cheney last week from canceling the Navy's A-12 Avenger attack bomber and sending military contractors the clearest signal yet that the Reagan-era good times are over. The old buddy-buddy relationship between the Pentagon and arms makers who blithely exceed contract costs and expect taxpayers to pick up the tab has ended...
...action was especially gutsy since there are no firm plans for an alternative to the Avenger. It was meant to replace the fabled but aging A-6 Intruder, first deployed in 1963, as the Navy's basic carrier-based attack bomber. The stress of jarring carrier landings for such a long time has so weakened at least one-third of the Intruders that their pilots have been ordered to restrict certain maneuvers lest the planes fall apart...