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...unknown in the civilian sector, more than one design bureau might be asked to develop the same weapon. After years of close cooperation with the military establishment, several "families" of weapons producers have evolved. The Sukhoi and Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureaus, for example, produce Sukhoi and MiG jet fighters. Missiles are the specialty of the Yangel, Chelomei and Nadiradze bureaus. Often, test models from rival firms will be put into production simultaneously. The result: in a country where the selection of shoes or overcoats is limited, there are six different types of interceptor jets...
...operate their military sector with such rigor: they know they can force their citizens to wear ill-fitting shoes but they cannot afford to fall far behind the West's steady technological innovation. In some cases, designers have tried to keep up with Western models. The MiG-23, for example, has the "swing-wing" look of the U.S. F-111. The need to adapt foreign ideas and keep up technologically with foreign mili tary equipment has introduced a capitalist-like competitiveness to military production that is woefully lacking in the domestic economy, where shoddy goods do not face...
...other Soviet bloc aid. Lately Bishop had even been talking of elections. Last spring he visited Washington for meetings with U.S. officials in an effort to tone down the antagonistic rhetoric between the two governments, much of it spawned by construction of a Cuban-built runway capable of accommodating MiG fighters...
...film is vaguest it is often at its strongest. Impending nuclear war is announced in a series of bulletins on radio and television, casually broadcast and half-heard at first. The sound track carries snatches of references that accelerate to slightly longer descrip tions of airport blockades and MiG-25s "invading West German airspace" and that end, finally, with a shocked anchorwoman saying, "Three nuclear weapons in the low-kiloton range were airburst this morning over advancing Soviet troops." There is only calamity after that. ABC's determination to keep up appearances of political evenhandedness have helped the film...
...Asian heavens have revealed many omens to South Korea this year: last winter a North Korean pilot defected to Seoul in his MIG 19; last May a Chinese airliner was hijacked on a domestic flight and forced to land in South Korea: over the summer a Chinese pilot flew his MIG to Seoul, touching off sirens and momentary panic, but the pilot was soon on his way to Taiwan: and in September the Soviet Union shot down a Korean jumbo passenger jet that strayed across Soviet territory on the last leg of its long journey from New York. The Korean...