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...Affairs, was in Peking for talks with the Chinese government, when the State Department announced that one of the key issues the Chinese wanted to discuss had already been resolved, unilaterally. Confronted with Taiwan's request to buy a U.S. fighter jet more sophisticated than its present model, Northrop's F-5E, and China's countervailing demand that all U.S. arms sales to Taiwan cease, the White House tried to split the difference. Taiwan could continue to get the F-5E, which it co-produces with Northrop, but could not have a successor plane...
...weapons buy security? For many Third World nations, arms may well deter external aggression, but even the best-equipped troops of an unpopular regime are unlikely to hold off forever a domestic revolution. Witness Iran or Nicaragua. Thomas Barger, a former president of Aramco Oil and a director of Northrop, points out the evident danger: "When you get a lot of playthings, how long is it before you want to try them...
...that only 35 per cent of the undergraduate student body bothered to vote in the April referendum, getting a majority of the College to support the Dowling plan this fall could prove difficult. "People won't vote against the plan--they just won't vote at all," Nancy J. Northrop '81, a member of the Dowling committee, has said...
...biggest peacetime defense buildup in U.S. history, the skilled labor shortage threatens to create crippling and inflationary production bottlenecks. Without experienced workers, there is no way to shape and mold the thousands of metal parts that go into fighter planes and new tanks, into cruise missiles and Trident submarines. Northrop Corp., which co-produces the F/A-18 Hornet fighter, is already short of such specialized tradespeople as jig-and-fixture experts and plaster patternmakers. Says Donald Smith, director of the University of Michigan's industrial development division: "A recovering economy and a boom in defense orders could create the biggest...
President Reagan, still basking in Columbia's memorable success, sent his good wishes. The industrial adventurers of the aerospace industry are his kind of guys; some, like Northrop's chairman Tom Jones, are friends. Platoons of members of the U.S. Congress and their aides went to the show as if they sensed that the sizing-up in Paris will be an excellent indicator of how the U.S. under Reagan will fare in the world and at home these next few months...