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...Navy and the Marine Corps intend to buy 1,366 of the twin-engined supersonic planes by 1990; the contract price for 1983 is $22.5 million per plane. Known as the Hornet, the aircraft has been approved by the Navy in its fighter role, but it has not yet been accepted as suitable for bombing runs off carriers. Tests disclosed that it cannot, as promised, fly fully loaded off a carrier, reach targets 630 miles away and return without refueling. But production has been proceeding apace at the McDonnell Douglas Corp...
...anniversary prompted a worldwide chorus of statements and demonstrations calling for an end to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. "The United States does not intend to forget these brave people and their struggle," President Ronald Reagan said last week. The Socialist government of French President Francois Mitterrand did not mention the Soviet Union by name, but it "denounced all foreign intervention in Afghanistan's internal affairs." West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher was blunter, pledging support for "the Afghan people in their demand for freedom." In Tehran several hundred protesters marched outside the Soviet embassy...
Michigan officials intend to appeal Judge Hotchkiss's verdict. Says Assistant Attorney General Richard Gartner: "The state now has no process to approve non-public schools." Part of Michigan's compulsory education law says that parents must send children to state-approved schools. According to Gartner, there is now a legal doubt as to whether the compulsory attendance requirement is legal...
Gassama said coalition members intend to picket the 8 30 a.m. course "as long as necessary," explaining that the duration of the boycott hinges "on the reaction of the Faculty" to it once it begins. The course begins Wednesday...
...what it all meant in terms of warheads and missile launchers. Their most educated guess was that Moscow would start by dismantling all of its SS-4 and SS-5 missile launchers, which were already slated for removal because they are now out of date. Precisely what the Soviets intend to do with their sophisticated new SS-20s was another question. One possibility is that they might offer to remove as many as 100 SS-20s from Europe. Counting three warheads for each SS-20 removed and one for each dismantled SS-4 and SS-5, the Soviets could claim...