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TEXAS13 SERVER February 24, 1984 A Journal of Free Voices 75C Arms of War: MADE IN TEXAS BY TEXANS Draw ing by Joe Mc De rmo tt Austin WHEN NAVY LT. ROBERT GOODMAN was shot down over Lebanon in December, he was flying a Vought A-7 fighter plane built in Texas. The Huey helicopters that fired on people in Vietnam and now attack Salvadoran villages originally rolled off a Fort Worth assembly line. A new NATO truck outfitted with anti-tank rockets was designed in Dallas. Texas churns out an array of weapons that includes motors for guided missiles, computer programs for nuclear submarines, and every American nuclear warhead. Among the fifty states, we rank behind only California and Virginia in sales to the Pentagon.