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Thanks to Mark Thompson for turning the spotlight on the safety problems with the T-3. Our son, Captain Dan Fischer, mentioned in the report, was the first instructor to die in a T-3 crash. It is clear to us that the T-3 is a flawed "dream" plane, promoted by an arrogant Air Force general, Merrill McPeak. He expected inexperienced students to be able to do spins and rolls without parachutes. These young people were the victims of a program hurriedly begun before the T-3 was adequately adapted for the thin Colorado air, before instructors were sufficiently...
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Forget all the silo-rattling: TIME's Defense Department correspondent, Mark Thompson, says the United States won't deploy nukes against Iraq. Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon had insisted that should Iraq use biological or chemical weapons, America's response would be "decisive and devastating." Asked if that would include nuclear weapons, he replied: "I don't think we've ruled anything in or out in this regard." Don't believe it, says Thompson: "It's just as it was during the Gulf War ? the response will be strictly conventional and likely massive...
While biological and chemical arms can potentially wreak havoc on civilian populations, they're considered inefficient, especially when delivered by Saddam Hussein's favorite transport, the Scud. "The Scud is an inaccurate weapon and the wind has to be just right," says Thompson. Still, Israel is taking notice. Statements by the chief U.N. weapons inspector that Iraq has enough biological or chemical arms to "blow away Tel Aviv" has elicited Pentagon-like tough talk from Israeli officials. "Surely Iraq must know that it will not pay to attack Israel," government spokesman David Bar-Ilan told Reuters. Israelis are being told...
...Gulf. Iraq has enough biological weapons to "blow away Tel Aviv," and is playing tricks to hide them ? that's the word from Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector. Indeed, as the U.S. continues its buildup of hardware in the Persian Gulf, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says an attack is at least a week away...