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...original agreement reached last November, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries would design the fighter (top speed: 1,300 m.p.h.) in cooperation with St. Louis-based General Dynamics. The deal guaranteed U.S. contractors 40% of the $1.2 billion development budget and allowed access to the secrets of advanced Japanese radar gear and composite materials. But Bush wants further assurances that American firms will receive 40% of the $5 billion to $10 billion in production contracts for as many as 170 fighters, which are to be deployed in the late 1990s...
...dodge icebergs that were floating in the sound, Cousins asked the Coast Guard station in Valdez for permission to switch from the path taken by outgoing vessels to the one used by incoming ships. The Coast Guard gave its O.K. but then lost radar contact with the ship. The local newspaper, the Valdez Vanguard, reported that the Coast Guard two years ago replaced its radar with a less powerful unit. Had it maintained contact, the Coast Guard could have warned Cousins that he was straying close to the dangerous rocks of Bligh Reef...
...that matter, the accident might have been avoided had the Coast Guard's radar been electronically linked to the harbor's vessel-traffic system so that an alarm would sound automatically if a tanker wandered out of its correct path. Such a state-of-the-art system is in operation in at least one foreign port. Says Curtis of the Oceanic Society: "This is not just a case of someone getting drunk. Because the industry did not take responsibility for state-of- the-art technology, the problem lies at its doorstep...
...next liftoff should come in April, when the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to send a craft called Magellan on its way to Venus. The space probe will begin orbiting the planet next year, using radar to map its cloud-hidden surface. The best maps now in existence, compiled by Soviet spacecraft, show features as small as a quarter-mile across, but Magellan is expected to do about ten times as well...
...build its own fighter from scratch but eventually agreed to a deal in which the U.S. would share more of the F-16 fighter jet's aviation and military secrets than it had before with any of its allies. In return, the U.S. would acquire some Japanese developments in radar-absorbing, or Stealth, materials that would be used in the plane's wings and fuselage. General Dynamics, which first developed the F-16 in 1972, would design and build 35% to 40% of the FSX prototype. Later, U.S. contractors would expect a 30% share in the production...