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...designed to replace the venerable B-52, which has been the U.S. Air Force's mainstay long-range bomber for nearly 20 years. Two-thirds the size of the B-52, the new 400,000-lb. aircraft carries twice the payload and takes off in half the runway space that the B-52 needs, and it flies faster at high altitudes, reaching twice the speed of sound. With greater maneuverability and retractable wings, it is designed to zoom in under enemy radar scans and attack at treetop level while still flying at nearly supersonic speed...
...Harvard you have nothing to worry about." Accepting the Harvard Republican Club's Charles Manson Award for Mass Murder, former President Richard M. Nixon announces his simultaneous retirement from politics and organized crime. Nixon stops by the Coop to autograph copies of his memoirs, Requiem for a Dike Bomber...
...officers (TIME, Nov. 11). Moreover, Saigon's economic squeeze-the result of the increased price of imported oil and a decrease in U.S. aid-has forced ARVN to economize on the battlefield. Many outposts are now limited to two artillery shells per day as a conservation measure. Fighter-bomber missions have been slashed by two-thirds and helicopter missions by nearly three-quarters to save fuel...
...Kissinger has indicated that the new Soviet Backfire bomber is not to be defined as being a heavy bomber. It is therefore difficult to see how the accord reduces in a meaningful way the U.S. strategic-defense problem posed by the new family of Soviet missiles and bombers, which are completing testing and whose deployment is now beginning. If we do not add new strategic programs to those now planned, the U.S. will end the ten-year period of the accord with less than half the MlRVed throw-weight and less than half the un-MIRVed throw-weight...
...second quarter of 1974 alone, inflation added $16.9 billion to the cost of 42 major weapons systems, a rise of 13% over their prices when last projected. The programmed cost of the B-1 bomber jumped from $12.2 billion to $18.6 billion; projected outlays for Trident nuclear submarines, each of which can carry 24 missiles, rose from $11.4 billion to $15.5 billion. Third-quarter figures are not yet available, but they hardly seem likely to be any better since the annual rate of U.S. inflation has continued in double digits...