The World - News from March 17, 1988
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The Reagan Administration has notified Congress that it plans to sell 75 F-16 jet fighters to Israel, four to Bahrain and an unspecified number to Pakistan. A classified report covering projected arms sales for 1988, sent to Congress Feb. 25, also said that the United States plans to equip Egypt’s six Soviet-built submarines with U.S. torpedoes and radar. Egypt also would be sold an unspecified number of M-60 tanks, while Pakistan would get P-3 Orion submarine-hunting aircraft. Congress has 30 days to block the projected sales.
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