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...circumstances were chillingly similar. Last Aug. 31 a small private plane took off from a suburban Los Angeles airfield, flew into the restricted airspace that protects Los Angeles International Airport without informing controllers, and collided with an Aeromexico jetliner. Eighty-two people died. Last week a single-engine Mooney aircraft lifted off from a municipal airfield 15 miles south of Salt Lake City, intruded without warning into the restricted zone around the city's international airport, and struck a SkyWest commuter airliner. All ten people in the two planes were killed...
Begin with a birth: a baby-faced soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), is delivered from the womb of a transport plane into the harsh light of Viet Nam. He will find death soon enough: four patrols in the film, four wrenching revelations. On Chris' first night patrol he watches, paralyzed with fear, as the enemy approaches and another new boy dies. On a second patrol the platoon enters a village that might be My Lai; anger goads Chris to spit bullets at the feet of a petrified Vietnamese, and before the day is over the group's leader, Sergeant Barnes...
...other than Mohammed Ali Hamadei, 22, a Lebanese wanted in the U.S. for murder and air piracy in the TWA hijacking. Hamadei was allegedly one of the original two hijackers; his hooded face appeared all over the world as he and his fellow terrorists made demands from the hijacked plane. In Washington, Justice Department officials are asking that Hamadei be flown to the U.S. to stand trial. Under the amended Federal Aviation Act, U.S. authorities are empowered to prosecute cases of hijacking and murder aboard U.S. aircraft anywhere in the world...
...issue is broader than just the fate of the B-1B program, which will have cost nearly $30 billion by the time the last plane is delivered in 1988. Close on its heels is the successor aircraft, Northrop Corp.'s so-called Stealth bomber, supposedly even less visible to enemy defenses and better able to penetrate to targets. Plans call for producing 132 Stealth planes, with a projected price tag said to top $40 billion...
Unlike Rockwell International Corp.'s B-1B, which at least was constructed in public view, the Stealth is a "black" Pentagon program, with neither the aircraft's general performance nor its cost open to outside inspection. Industry rumors, however, claim the plane is already $2 billion over budget. "After seven years of testing, the Air Force still couldn't deliver a serviceable B-1B," said one critic. "Who knows what mistakes are being made behind the black wall of secrecy surrounding the Stealth bomber...