The helicopters and accompanying missiles, spare engines and other accessories in Singapore's initial request was worth about $617 million.
"They were thinking, 'While we're bombing anyway, here's a target that should have a great benefit to the nation and what we're doing.' " Other officials disputed that, citing intercepted radio transmissions and agents' reports that the directorate was organizing truckloads of spare surface-to-air missile parts, as well as artillery and mortar shells, for the Serbian forces.
Because of a correlative genre rule, she will be spared when a Navy test missile from Wake Island goes astray and rips huge holes in the plane.
The goal, the official added, would be to spare Israel from having to endure missile attacks from Iraq, followed by American pressure not to strike back.
It also mentioned previously published reports that the Americans would offer Israel a satellite to provide early warning of Iraqi missile strikes and that spare parts and other American equipment would be stored in Israel.
If Teller had trusted the Russians to negotiate the world may have been spared the trauma of the Cuban missile crisis.
(We were spared the costs of a Hellfire missile or Hydra rockets last week when the obliging potential bombers blew themselves up).
Of these 9,400 warheads, an estimated 2,468 were operational (that is, mated to a delivery system such as a missile); the rest were either spares held in reserve or retired warheads scheduled to be dismantled.
The report said: "The MoD purchases, holds and uses more than 710 million items of 900,000 different types, from bullets and missiles to medical supplies, clothing and spare parts for vehicles, ships and aircraft.
The Cuban foreign ministry said the Chong Chon Gang was carrying 240 tonnes of "obsolete" defensive weapons - two anti-aircraft missile complexes, nine missiles in parts and spares, two MiG-21bis fighter planes and 15 MiG engines.
