Word: aerials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press conference last week with a stern speech in favor of more aid for Central America, and then faced a flurry of questions about his policies around the world. Indeed, the various, precarious strands of foreign policy dominated Washington's agenda all week. Pugnacity from Moscow and aerial assaults by Iran and Iraq on shipping in the Persian Gulf naturally prompted concern, even skittishness. "Mr. President," his final press conference inquisitor asked, "how do you account for the fact that so many people . . . think that during the last 3½ years the world has moved closer to war?" Reagan...
...North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which is responsible for providing early warning against aerial attacks, estimates that some 3,800 pieces of junk are currently circling the earth.* Total weight of this space-age garbage: six tons. Two-thirds of the nuts, bolts, oxygen cylinders, broken solar panels, dead satellites, spent rocket boosters and other litter is in geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles from the earth's surface, where it will remain indefinitely. One-third of the circling scrap is in low earth orbit, only 120 to 300 miles overhead...
...Angeles, circled the globe in 45 hr. 32 min. 53 sec., setting a new record for all classes of civilian aircraft. The 23,340-mile trip in a Gulfstream III, which began and ended in Washington, included stops in Moscow, Peking, Tokyo and London. Says Knapp of her aerial feat: "It's the most exhilarating thing I've ever done. It's like winning the Indianapolis 500 or the triathlon...
...resolution demanding Marine withdrawal from Lebanon before the House when Congressmen returned from an eleven-day recess on Feb. 21. Even some Republicans were sympathetic. In a provocative radio broadcast, only days before his sudden announcement of the Marine "redeployment" and the new rules for U.S. naval and aerial engagement in Lebanon, Reagan urged that the U.S. not "cut and run" from its positions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the President took a hard swipe at House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who had called Reagan's policy in Lebanon a failure, by declaring that...
...duel was as fierce as an aerial battle. On one side was United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney unit, long the sole source of jet engines for the F-15 and F16, the Air Force's two top fighters. On the other was General Electric, which has been struggling to win some of that lucrative business. At issue was one of the biggest defense prizes ever: a long-term contract to build more than 2,000 engines for the F-15 and F16. The award could ultimately be worth $17 billion over the 20-year life of the engines. Following...