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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warships of the 6th fleet were in international waters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Warships Approach Beirut | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

...force consists of about 22 warships and 1900 more Marines were moved out of Spain yesterday to join the battle fleet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Warships Approach Beirut | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

...entire floors of a luxury building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He has homes in Marbella, Paris, Cannes, the Canary Islands, Madrid, Rome, Beirut, Riyadh, Jidda and Monte Carlo. His 282- ft. yacht Nabila (complete with helicopter) makes Queen Elizabeth's Britannia look like a package-tour ship. His fleet includes three commercial- size jets, twelve stretch Mercedes limousines, a total of 100 vehicles and a stable of Arabian horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...says FAA Administrator Donald Engen, all U.S. commercial planes will be required to carry the TCAS II; eventually, foreign aircraft entering U.S. airspace will too. At a price of about $80,000 a plane, the system will cost upwards of $500 million for the entire U.S. commercial fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying with TCAS II | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...after spending $1.2 billion on the still experimental plane, known as the Tigershark, over the past eight years. The decision came two weeks after the Air Force rejected a proposed contract to buy 270 F-20s for $3.5 billion. The Pentagon decided instead to upgrade an equally large fleet of General Dynamics F-16s at a cost of $2.3 million each -- only one-fifth the F-20's $12.8 million price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Contractors F-20, Over ; . . . and Out | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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