Zimbabwe, in a challenge to neighboring white-ruled South Africa, has secretly bought 12 MIG-29 interceptor aircraft, the Soviet Union's most advanced warplane, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

President Clinton, for instance, recently lifted limitations on the sale of advanced American warplanes in Latin America, a step likely to encourage a costly arms race among countries that ought to be addressing poverty and poor health.

Clinton knows that Yeltsin will immediately take his election campaign to China, signing a treaty settling old border disputes while selling China more advanced warplanes.

This includes advanced warplanes, antiaircraft missiles and hundreds of tanks.

The latest example is the decision to allow American companies to submit bids to sell F-16 fighters to Chile, a country that has no need for advanced warplanes.

During the last two years, Iraq has received deliveries of the MIG-29, the most advanced Soviet warplane.

The crash last month of one of the nation's most advanced warplanes on this peaceful Indian reservation just west of the Continental Divide has forged an unlikely alliance of secrecy between a reclusive ancient people and the Air Force.

A steady stream of F-15E's were taking off from central and eastern Saudi Arabia, part of an international air force that includes the deadliest, fastest and most technologically advanced warplanes in the world.

The European Fighter Aircraft, an ambitious attempt by Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain to set aside national rivalries and cooperate in the development of an advanced warplane, has run into snags.

Hell, you know more than anyone else how different it is-you fly the most advanced warplane in the friggin' universe!