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...becoming routine in the nation's air-traffic-control system. By the National Transportation Safety Board's reckoning, anti- quated tracking equipment freezes up, shuts down or fizzles out all too often. "There is not one day that goes by without our losing radar or radio communication with an aircraft," says Joseph Fruscella, president of NATCA's eastern region. "It compromises safety on a regular basis...
...cause China to lose face needlessly. You hit them hard in private and send an unmistakable public signal. You send the Navy to the Taiwan Strait. You don't explain why. You just do it. They'll get the message." Forbes was heartened when Clinton had the aircraft carrier Nimitz steam between China and Taiwan last December, but "dumbfounded" when "some stupid functionary said it was there only because of bad weather in the Pacific." But what if China lobbed missiles at Taiwan instead of invading, as it recently threatened? "Then I'd send cruise-missile ships to the strait...
...keep NATO, Muslim, and Croat generals waiting in the rain, Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir did just that on Monday. When Tolimir did not show up for the meeting which was to mark the resumption of Serb contacts with NATO, the other parties flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke in Rome to bring...
...crucial task is to locate the bomb, which is presumably hidden. After flying in from around the country on military transport, NEST searchers divide the threatened city--the cia and fbi assume terrorists will target an urban area in order to incur maximum casualties--into search grids. Energy Department aircraft, specially fitted with photographic equipment, are sent aloft to take shots of the city for detailed maps that can be used if intelligence sources narrow the search to a particular area or type of structure. Helicopters equipped with radiation detectors can sweep over the city as well, but a nuclear...
...backsliding occurs. Ensuring compliance should be easy, says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Everybody -- Serbs, Croats and Muslims -- has lines they've got to go behind in the next few weeks, after which we should be able to tell who does what. With 20,000 men on the ground, and aircraft constantly crossing overhead, we should be able to keep a pretty good eye on whether there are any movements of troops or ammunition that would be in violation of the agreement...