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...PURSUIT OF THESE GOALS, Iran has devoted nearly 40 percent of its national budget and almost all of its oil revenue to the war effort. The recent decline in oil prices, cutting its national revenue by about 50 percent, plus the more effective use of Iraqi air power to intercept Iranian oil exports created a major crisis earlier this year. In response, Iran has been seeking the recovery of its credits and other assets in the West and even a resumption of the sale to the Soviets of natural gas, which was interrupted after the revolution...
...them have contracted AIDS, and ten have AIDS-related illnesses. Though no American has yet been found to harbor the new virus, Montagnier reported that one potential French donor has already tested positive for LAV-II and negative for the more common AIDS virus. Luckily, doctors were able to intercept the donation before it was used, as it had managed to cross-react with the original AIDS test...
...nation's coastlines and employ almost its entire inventory of AWACS radar planes in a drug interdiction role." Said Chapman Cox, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management: "To use F-16 squadrons to intercept low- flying, slow, propeller-driven aircraft will be a difficult task, but we could do it. It just would be very inefficient...
Congressman Duncan Hunter, a California Republican and author of the military provision, argues that the Pentagon has exaggerated the dimensions of the interdiction effort. "If we can't intercept a couple of Cessnas per hour," says Hunter, "we better forget about SDI." A Senate version drafted late last week calls on the military to give support but leaves its role to the option of the Administration. Majority Leader Robert Dole predicted the Senate would act within a week or so, giving conferees from both chambers time to iron out differences on military deployments, spending levels and other issues...
...They can afford to lease an entire ranch for one drop," says Marion Hambrick of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Houston. They can also buy the best equipment: advanced fiber boats that elude radar, scuba-diving gear, "voice privacy" scrambler radios and single-sideband transmitters, which are hard to intercept, and light planes that are often faster and have better radar than Customs' planes. Firearms too: gun battles between feds and smugglers have erupted all along the Mexican border...