Word: bombers
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...domestic spending, partly by imposing a one-year freeze on cost of living adjustments in all federal benefit programs except those aimed at the poor. The proposal would also slash defense spending by almost $50 billion, mainly by canceling a number of weapons systems, chiefly the B-1 bomber and the MX missile...
...patriotism and fiery Islamic zeal. British authorities estimate that the 100,000 rebels have taken as many as 12,000 Soviet lives during the 52-month campaign. TIME has also learned that U.S. officials received reports last week that the insurgents managed to shoot down at least one enemy bomber. Meanwhile, they remain in control of nearly all of the countryside. In the Panjshir Valley, Massoud's men had reportedly sustained a healthy economy through a clandestine trade in semiprecious stones, while keeping their strongholds well stocked with munitions and food...
Both Helms and Hunt support a sustained military buildup, the MX missile and B-l bomber and stronger conventional forces. They oppose a nuclear freeze. Both back a constitutional amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools...
...side seeks supremacy in technological areas that would be vital to any ballistic missile defense. And while the U.S. may hold a temporary lead in space technology, it is also vastly more dependent than Russia on satellites for communications and reconnaissance because of its wide-flung network of submarines, bomber bases, and other defense installations...
...Weapons and Hope. For much of the book, Dyson, an English-born physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, rambles through a grabbag of topics. Dyson recounts the activities of his uncle in the trenches during the First World War, his own experience working with the RAF Bomber Command in World War II, and his encounter with an American military officer who squirmed with excitement when discussing the course of a nuclear...