Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High over Cudjoe Key, Fla., Fat Albert sways lazily in the breeze, but he is in fact a tireless worker. This 200,000-cu.-ft. helium balloon is one of three deployed in Florida and the Bahamas that are on the lookout for drug smugglers and helping with other intelligence-gathe ring activities...
...efficient than the ground version. It can pick up traffic in what Customs agents call "Smugglers' Alley," a wide band of Caribbean sky that is virtually invisible to land-based radar dishes because the curvature of the earth prevents them from detecting objects close to the ground. When Fat Albert or one of his big buddies sights a suspicious flight, Customs officials send out a plane to track it. Says Customs Agent Red Dinmit: "It doesn't get them all, but it sure sees most of them...
...Albert can also pick up communications from Cuba and from Soviet satellites. Unlike ground radar, the balloons can also detect cruise missiles coming from the south. It would, however, take 20 Fat Alberts to cover the southern border completely...
...comment on his expansive style that he was nicknamed "Supremo" by staffers during World War II, when he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia. To the royal family he was "Dickie" (though Richard was not one of his string of given names, which were Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas). He was the last Viceroy of India, who in 1947 presided over the fade-out of the British raj. He went out of this world at 79 (blown up in 1979 by I.R.A. terrorists while boating in Donegal Bay) as Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...
SENTENCED. Albert Nipon, 57, dress manufacturer whose softly styled, femininely frilled designs have adorned screen stars, businesswomen and First Ladies Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan; to three years in prison, after pleading guilty in federal court last February to charges of income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud, involving the bribery of two Internal Revenue Service agents; in Philadelphia...