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Saraki was responding to Wednesday’s announcement by the Nigeria Air Force that the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, had presented Letters of Offer and Acceptance, which represents the official American Government’s offer to sell defence articles and services to Nigeria during a visit to Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sidique Abubakar.

As the debate commenced, Henry Trewhitt of the Baltimore Sun asked Reagan about his advancing age. Reagan, who was then the oldest American president looked at the much younger Mondale before him and then turned to Trewhitt and said “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”