Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker contended that the agreement should proceed unchanged. But the lack of a Defense Secretary to argue the Pentagon's side handicapped the pro-FSX forces. Covering the middle ground, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher thought he could abide the deal as long as the most crucial U.S. design secrets were not given away...
This month the FSX's proponents at the State and Defense departments, who see the deal as an economic and strategic boon for the U.S., argued heatedly with critics who wanted to scrap the plan. Finally last week, President Bush called an unusual National Security Council meeting to thrash out the issues. In the end, he decided on a compromise: to go through with the deal but to apply safeguards that will prevent Japanese contractors from getting access to the most important technology. According to presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, Bush has yet to decide on "at least three or four...
Japan originally wanted to build its own fighter from scratch but eventually agreed to a deal in which the U.S. would share more of the F-16 fighter jet's aviation and military secrets than it had before with any of its allies. In return, the U.S. would acquire some Japanese developments in radar-absorbing, or Stealth, materials that would be used in the plane's wings and fuselage. General Dynamics, which first developed the F-16 in 1972, would design and build 35% to 40% of the FSX prototype. Later, U.S. contractors would expect a 30% share...
...laws subject men who violate these court orders to fines or jail terms. Yet men are seldom arrested for violations -- short of murder -- unless they are on the premises when police arrive. Meanwhile, the courts, still uncomfortable with domestic violence and faced with crowded prisons, tend to deal leniently with offenders...
...North suggestion in February 1985 that Honduras get $35 million in expedited military aid and $75 million in economic assistance in return for its help to the contras, many of whom operated from camps in Honduras. The note also directed a secret emissary to brief Honduran officials on the deal...