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...world's major military powers. To equip his 160,000-man army, 40,000-man air force and 11,500-man navy, the Shah recently contracted for such imposingly modern weapons as 70 U.S. F-4 Phantom jets, 800 British Chieftain tanks and an assortment of destroyers, Hovercraft and troop-transport planes. In a deal that probably saved Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Corp. from bankruptcy, the Shah earlier this year ordered 80 F-14s at a cost of nearly $1.5 billion. By 1980 Iran will have more fighter-bombers (839) than any NATO nation except...
...Soviet design employs a revolutionary principle: the jet blast from the eight engines mounted on the stubby forward wing is aimed to hit the water and bounce back up under the main wing to create a lifting bubble of air similar to that on which Hovercraft ride. When fully developed in the late '70s, the creation is expected to thunder along at speeds up to 350 m.p.h. while flying only 25 to 50 feet above the water-low enough to make radar detection difficult. What is more, the huge aircraft could make two-to three-day voyages extending...
...upon us." Although the security argument has faded into the background, skepticism among the British remains strong today. Detractors of the tunnel complain that the government has rushed ahead so quickly with the project that it has not given due consideration to alternatives, as, for example, bigger and better Hovercraft. Its proponents reply, however, that following British entry into the Common Market, the tunnel has become a straightforward economic proposition. British Transport officials estimate that the tunnel, in its first year of operation, will carry 15 million passengers and at least 5,000,000 tons of freight...
Iran already has an awesome arsenal. Since 1965 it has spent more than $3 billion in the U.S. and Europe on mostly sophisticated arms, including 70 Phantom F-4 jet fighters, 400 tanks, a destroyer, a couple of frigates and what is probably the biggest fleet of Hovercraft (50) in the world. But the Shah, who makes the final decision on all such equipment, wants more. Currently prepared to spend $2 billion or so a year, he has on order 100 F-5E supersonic fighters, another 100 Phantoms, 700 helicopters, 750 tanks, eight destroyers and four frigates. Last week...
...Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. From the Goons, the Monty Python crew learned how to raise nonsense to dizzying heights: a filmed cabaret act of two brothers who play tape recorders concealed in their noses; a Hungarian tourist who reads to startled British shopkeepers such sentences as "My Hovercraft is full of eels" from a wildly mistranslated phrase book; a mob of old ladies, "Hell's Grannies," who terrorize London; an earnest competition for "Upper-Class Twit of the Year." These goonish concepts are executed with due gusto by Graham Chapman...