Word: 2s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added that a flame-out had forced the U-2 far below its maximum working altitude of above 80,000 ft., enabling the Chinese to shoot it down. The Russian denied that it was shot down by Soviet-supplied ground-to-air missiles, though Formosa's U-2s reportedly fly over an IRBM range on the mainland...
...week's end, Formosa let it be known that it would like a new supply of U-2s. However, President Kennedy said that "we have no plans" to sell U2s to the Chinese Nationalists or to anyone else...
Castro's newest weapons are short-range guided missiles. On land, he has the Soviet's stubby SA-2 antiaircraft rocket, a solid-fuel ground-to-air missile similar to the U.S.'s Nike-Ajax. A nest of six SA-2s is already installed and operational under camouflage at Bahia Honda, 45 miles from Havana. Radar guided, the antiaircraft weapons can reach targets within a 3O°-slant range of from 25 to 27 miles, or as far straight up as 60,000 feet. Another SA-2 site is reported under construction in Matanzas, 60 miles east...
...veterans he could find. As his force grew, so did the costs: up to $1,000,000 a day. Involved are some 1,700 airmen, 6,600 sailors, 600 soldiers, 100 marines, 1,000 civilian technicians, 1,800 civilian construction workers. Starbird's air armada includes highflying U-2s, workhorse C-130s...
...meteorologists are not yet convinced by Bowen's revolutionary theory, but there are few who still deride it rudely. Many are reserving judgment until the particles collected by the U-2s have been positively analyzed and identified as space dust. Then will come the additional job of proving that the space dust can and does cause rain. But Bowen and a growing army of believers are sure that this final proof is not far ahead...