The World - News from July 9, 1985
Singapore has canceled plans to buy eight special export models of the F-16 jet fighter and instead will buy eight high-powered F-16s like those flown by the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department said. Previous U.S. policy was to sell only the export version of the F-16, with General Electric J-79 engines, to Southeast Asian allies. But in April, the Reagan Administration agreed to sell a dozen of the high-powered F-16s, with Pratt & Whitney F-100 engines, to Thailand.
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