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...planes in last week's collision were a British Airways Trident-Flight 476-bound from London to Istanbul with 63 aboard, and a Yugoslav DC-9. The Yugoslav plane had been chartered to return West German vacationers to Cologne after a 14-day vacation at the Adriatic resort of Split...
...been cleared shortly before the crash to climb to 35,000 ft. But the area around Zagreb-a key sky junction of routes to Turkey, Greece and Mediterranean resorts-is one of Europe's busiest air corridors, and the Yugoslav pilot was unaware that the British Trident was already flying at that altitude. Zagreb's air controllers may well be responsible for this fatal error. The preliminary opinion of Vjeceslav Jakovac, the Yugoslav judge heading the investigation, was that the controllers probably had incorrectly assessed the altitude of the planes. Five of the controllers were taken into custody...
...could be cut by about $7 billion a year, chiefly through eliminating bureaucratic waste and some expensive weapons systems, such as the B-1 bomber. But, because he believes that the U.S. fleet is becoming inferior to Russia's, he would accelerate naval shipbuilding, including the nuclear, missile-firing Trident submarine...
...Defense Department, Carter charges, is the "most wasteful agency in the Federal Government." The old sailor would reduce its budget by $5 billion to $7 billion, cancel production of the B-l bomber, but go ahead with the Trident submarine. Worried about the dangers of the nuclear arms race, Carter is convinced that the President must make nuclear disarmament a firmly fixed national goal. He tells his audiences that in his inaugural address he would state clearly the commitment of the U.S. Government to a "zero goal"?the elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world through multilateral negotiations...
...reductions. The budget authorizes the Air Force to spend $597 million on continued development of the supersonic B-1 strategic bomber, plus $1.3 bil lion to buy 96 F-15 fighters (instead of the 108 it wanted). The Navy will get permission to build a fourth huge missile-armed Trident submarine, at a cost of $598.6 million, and to put $725.5 million into developing a new warhead that can maneuver during its flight to avoid anti-ballistic missiles...