Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly ten years, the Stealth bomber has been a secret in name only. Despite a hidden budget and a classification higher than top secret, military analysts and aviation buffs have pieced together a remarkably detailed picture of the first nuclear bomber designed to be almost invisible to enemy radar. Last week the Air Force acknowledged the plane's flying-wing shape for the first time. The Pentagon issued a drawing of the so-called B-2 and announced that the bomber will make its maiden flight sometime this fall in a 30-mile run between Palmdale and Edwards Air Force...
...limits to ventures with the Soviets. The Paris-based Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, for example, restricts exports of equipment and processes to the East bloc that might be used in military applications. Under COCOM rules, Western firms cannot do business with the Soviet Union in such areas as nuclear energy, high-speed computers and aircraft components. Last week four top executives of a French machine-tool firm were arrested on charges of shipping millions of dollars' worth of sophisticated milling machinery to the Soviets in violation of COCOM regulations. Intelligence sources contended that the equipment could be used...
...Reagan also applauded the agreement, and praised the "valiant struggle of the Afghan people to rid their country of foreign occupation." The two leaders will meet in Moscow on May 29, two weeks after the Soviet troop pullout is scheduled to begin, to discuss a 50% reduction in strategic nuclear weapons...
...three candidates agree on the broad outlines of foreign and defense policy, with provisions for the maintenance of an independent nuclear force de frappe regardless of future disarmament moves by the superpowers. Mitterrand calls for reimposing the so-called wealth tax on the unearned income of the rich, a measure repealed by the Chirac government after it assumed power in 1986. Chirac promises to continue selling off industries nationalized by Mitterrand in the early part of his seven-year term. While Mitterrand opposes such a move, even he no longer wants to pursue what he calls the "ballet" of renationalizing...
Like the bishops' landmark statements on nuclear arms (1983) and economic policy (1986), Partners was written after extensive hearings and consultations with experts and interested constituents -- in this case, two dozen women's groups and a total of 75,000 women in dioceses and at colleges and military bases. For the first time, however, the text is alive with direct quotes from participants in those often heated discussions. "We wanted the letter to be authentic, not just bishops speaking but women also," explains Chairman Imesch. A sample zinger from Savannah: "I maintain membership in a church that is blatantly sexist...