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...more that 50 at a forum sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club, David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History, and Scott Thompson, professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, joined Eilts in criticizing the handling of the controversial sale of the high-technology radar planes by American policy makers...
...exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous night stalker, a flightless sightless bat, with ears as sensitive as a NORAD radar antenna, that carries its clawlike hind legs over its shoulders as it roams around on its forelegs screeching, in search of prey...
...circumstance that lies ahead is the Reagan Administration's decision to sell five AW ACS radar intelligence-gathering aircraft and other advanced air weaponry to Saudi Arabia. Begin stated his objections to the sale in detail to Reagan, arguing that the sale posed a clear "danger" to Israel. "We are not frightened by AWACS," Begin told Reagan, "but we are worried about them." Still, he followed the advice of aides not to raise a public ruckus in the U.S. about the sale, since an all-out fight would look bad if Congress does not act to block the deal...
...device used to train millions of military and commercial airline pilots for instrument landings; of cancer; in Binghamton, N.Y. A seasoned pilot at age 25, Link built his first simulator in 1929 and, as the head of Link Aviation from 1935 to 1954, went on to produce trainers for radar, gunnery and space navigation. Starting in the 1950s, he helped to develop a series of manned ocean explorers, including the first practical submersible with an exit hatch to allow divers to explore the ocean floor at far greater depths than before...
...Order production of about 50 new bombers based on the B-1 design that Carter had scrapped. This aircraft, capable of penetrating Soviet air defenses, would bridge the gap between the aging B-52s and a new radar-evading "Stealth" craft to be perfected later. Fifty B-1s would be about half the number the Pentagon wants...