Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intensive shredding began last October, North said, after Casey advised him to "clean up the files" because a contra resupply plane had been shot down and investors in the Iran arms deals were threatening...
North said Abrams asked him to arrange for the return of the bodies of American crewmen shot down in a contra-supply plane over Nicaragua, contradicting Abrams' testimony that he was unaware of any official U.S. connection with the plane...
...source of jobs. The need to make that choice has triggered a vitriolic debate in which military and economic issues have frequently given way to pure emotion. "The real question," shouted Knesset Member Yosi Sarid last month, "is whether we become a state which has a fighter plane or a fighter plane which has a state." Even Rabin admits that the choice is the "most difficult and important decision faced by an Israeli government in more than a decade...
...decision seemed simple enough when the Israeli Cabinet approved the Lavi in 1980. Jerusalem had long wanted an advanced fighter that could dodge antiaircraft missiles while skimming battlefields to blast enemy targets. As then Defense Minister Ezer Weizman envisioned it, the plane was to be "small and cheap -- but a bastard" in combat. Over the years, though, Weizman has become a leading opponent of the plane. Says he: "It is too costly, comes too late and at the expense of more important objectives." Today the aircraft represents the perils that a small, defense-minded country can confront when it sets...
...debating whether to spend up to $10 billion on its proposed FSX fighter or buy comparable U.S. versions for as little as half the price. France continues to push ahead with its $5.8 billion Rafale fighter even though German, British and Italian companies are collaborating on a similar plane...