Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane, which will not make its maiden flight until early next year, was rolled out to a specially composed Stealth Fanfare last week at the Air Force's Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. The coming-out party was both a public relations move and a pre-emptive strike against defense-budget cutters in Congress. Conservative estimates place the price tag on a single B-2 at $500 million. That figure could rise to $850 million by 1995. The Air Force wants to build 132 of the bombers for about $70 billion...
Four hours into the flight, NASA reported that "all systems of the orbiter are performing satisfactorily." The next report will come 24 hours before Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The government did not reveal the duration of the flight, but it is expected to last three to five days...
President Reagan told reporters in Santa Barbara, Calif., yesterday that he supported Shultz's decision. "I think the other way would have sent out the wrong signal--that we are patsies," he said...
...from amputees and the blind to those with spinal-cord injuries or cerebral palsy, are taking up everything from cycling and scuba diving to rock climbing and rafting. That is still a small fraction of the 37 million handicapped in the U.S. But, declares Dave Kiley, 34, of Pomona, Calif., a star wheelchair-basketball player, "the traditional stereotype of passivity is broken...
...White House photographers watched Ronald Reagan through their long lenses in the final campaign hours as he sat on the stage in Long Beach, Calif., tiny American flag clutched in his hand. His 77 years and his flight west had wearied him. He had a wistful look, the collected melancholia of his political ending suddenly gripping him. Then came his turn on the podium...