Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it finally flies, Japan's FSX fighter jet (top speed: 1,300 m.p.h.) will represent technology at its peak. But the aircraft may represent an even loftier accomplishment in diplomacy, since it has become a centerpiece in the friendly but fierce economic rivalry between the U.S. and Japan. For more than four years, the two governments have been negotiating a joint effort to develop a new generation of fighter jet that would patrol the island nation's shipping lanes and support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew...
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...
Modern life seems ever more terrifying. A passenger jet explodes over Scotland. The wife of the captain of the U.S.S. Vincennes leaps out of her van an instant before a pipe bomb blows it up on a San Diego street. A Japanese Red Army terrorist, allegedly heading for a Navy recruiting station in Manhattan, is nabbed on the New Jersey Turnpike with shrapnel bombs. Bookstores in Berkeley are fire bombed for selling Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses...
...Kans., have been sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. As small towns shrivel, so does a way of life that helped define the national character. -- Despite qualms, the U.S. will assist Japan in building the FSX jet. -- The Mommy Track debate: Should motherhood put a woman on a slower career path...
...Rogers. He is commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the guided-missile cruiser that shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf last July 3, killing all 290 people aboard. Rogers gave the order to fire missiles at the plane in the mistaken belief that it was an Iranian jet fighter attacking his ship...