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...aspiring ace sits there--some might say preposterously--in this cavernous hangar in California, in the cockpit of a $13.5 million plane that will do everything but make coleslaw, and listens like a customer, the ejection detonator between his thighs. Northrop Corp. spent nearly $1 billion to develop the F-20, and has been trying for the past two years to persuade Washington to place an order. Unless the F-20 gets Uncle Sam's seal of approval, the bird won't fly with foreign buyers, for whom it was mainly designed in the first place. Northrop will soon...
...shortage of avocados in California, which grows 80% of the U.S. crop, has produced a spectacular jump in the price of the fruit and turned the state's groves into a prime target for rustlers. While newly installed fences guard against intruders, plane and helicopter patrols circle overhead. They are on the lookout for rustlers, who have made off with thousands of pounds of the lucrative fruit. The thefts could cost producers up to $3 million by next October. So far, though, no one has been caught...
...which are complicated by the fact that this year he will frequently find himself at odds with Ronald Reagan or congressional Republicans or both over issues like tax reform and the budget. "I've been trying to keep one foot in 1988," he noted as he relaxed on a plane trip from his native Kansas last week. "Or one toe maybe. I may not have a foot...
Tension between the U.S. and Libya continued last week in the aftermath of the Dec. 27 attacks at Rome and Vienna airports by Palestinian terrorists supported by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Two Libyan MiG-25 fighters intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane to the north of the Gulf of Sidra, then darted back to Libyan airspace before F/ A-18 jets from the U.S. aircraft carrier Coral Sea could reach the scene. While Gaddafi condemned Ronald Reagan as a "Hitler No. 2, " the Pentagon expressed concern about increasingly overt intelligence-gathering activities in the area by Soviet ships and aircraft...
...that were not trouble enough, Marcos' campaign plane nearly collided on Saturday with an air force plane carrying some of his security guards that was about to land at the opposite end of came same airstrip. Flying in clear skies, the two craft came within 3,000 ft. of each other before the military plane veered out of the way, almost hitting a grove of palm trees. DISASTERS A Bad Start...