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...rules type of guy." He seemed to be the last person anyone would have expected to break formation while flying a routine training mission with two other planes, and an unlikely person simply to vanish into the wild blue yonder with an $8.8 million, bomb-laden A-10 Thunderbolt jet...
...Rockies where several eyewitnesses reported seeing fires and smoke and hearing a loud explosion on April 2. Since then, though, several fresh feet of snow have been dumped on the already remote and snowy area, and search aircraft have been mostly grounded by bad weather. But even if the jet is found, some vital information will be missing: the A-10 carries no black box. Investigators may never learn why Captain Button did not radio for help--or why he veered off in the first place...
...kind of caught me at a bad time, Jeffrey," I said. "I just sent the IRS a check as my contribution toward one of those fancy new F-22 jet fighters that's going to keep us technologically way ahead of potential enemies like Iraq and Afghanistan, at least until we start selling them to Iraq and Afghanistan...
Bill Cohen, who as a Maine Senator received $10,100 from the jet manufacturers' PACs, had signed the letter to Christopher demanding an end to the restrictions. Now he lobbied the White House to send Chile the F-16 and F/A-18 specifications before March 31, warning that the Americans would be left out of the bidding if they missed the deadline...
...deadline, she argued. They would wait. First, before aerospace companies began peddling their wares, the Administration needed to decide whether it wanted to change its Latin American arms policy. But by now the arms lobby was too formidable. Clinton sided with Cohen, insisting that the green light to send jet specifications didn't necessarily mean the Administration would later approve their sale. But in the past, sales licenses have almost always followed if an American company won a bid overseas. "We have a different situation now than we did in the late '70s," says White House spokesman David Johnson...