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...Administration wants to sell to Israel and Saudi Arabia. "It's beautiful," says Brigadier General John T. Chain Jr., who has been flying F-15s since they became operational three years ago. "It's the-first fighter aircraft that has all the capabilities a pilot wants: high thrust, tight turning, great visibility and every switch in the right place in a cockpit designed for the pilot...
...first pivotal point," reported TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood from Addis Ababa, "will come if the Ethiopian thrust breaks through the barren Karamarda Mountains, which lie across the line of advance some six miles west of Jijiga. For thousands of years, armies on both sides have stood off invasions here. And it is here that the Ethiopians fled in the face of the Somali advance...
Cockpit instruments will be electronic digital readouts. New composite building materials will make the plane much lighter than current aircraft. A top-secret wing design will be more efficient, providing greater speeds and range for less engine thrust; and the engines will use less fuel and make less noise than existing jets...
...many fields, it is two to three times as easy for a women to get a job as a man, and one finds that the thrust of this affirmative action is to call women into a field who are not really interested in it, but anticipate better chances for jobs and higher salaries for less work than their competition, being mostly male. Men are second-class citizens: to justify this on the basis that women used to be second-class citizens would be like suggesting that Christians today would be justified in feeding Italians to lions. There is a book...
...latter option is essential if King Hussein is to be enticed into the talks-a move that would weaken the thrust of criticism from Arab rejectionists that Sadat is bargaining only for himself. But Hussein faces a problem in joining the negotiations if the political talks are resumed in Jerusalem. To other Arabs it may appear that the King has tacitly recognized Israeli sovereignty over the predominantly Arab old city, which was controlled...