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Personal background: Born in Bangor, Maine, William Sawyer now lives in Acton with his wife, Joan Gardner, and their three children. Sawyer received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University, and then, from 1955 to 1958, served in the U.S. Army in the judge advocate general corps, prosecuting and defending criminal matters...
...debate goes to the heart of American education. "Who is in charge of children -- parents or the state?" asks Linda Williams, a Christian Fundamentalist mother of four boys, ages 4 to 13, who teaches them for two hours each morning at home in Bangor, Me. "We're saying the parents are." She points out that there are no drugs in her bathroom, or switchblades in the hallways. "We're kidding ourselves if we think we're putting our kids in the same schools we went to," she says...
What is the best vantage point for spotting a drug-smuggling plane crossing the Caribbean? Strangely enough, one good place to be is Bangor, Me., a city thousands of kilometers north of the smugglers' favorite routes. Last week in Bangor the U.S. Air Force showed off the operations center for a new radar system that can "see" up to 3,300 km (2,000 miles), or nearly ten times as far as conventional radar. Built by General Electric, the OTH (for over-the- horizon) radar system was originally developed to give the U.S. military an early warning of any approaching...
Able to cover a swath of sky from Iceland to the northern coast of South America, the OTH radar can monitor a smuggler's plane from soon after it takes off in, say, Colombia until it reaches the U.S. When a technician in Bangor sees an unscheduled flight over the Caribbean, the information will be relayed - to the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Center in Key West, Fla. An Air Force fighter will follow the suspect plane, and officers of the Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration will be alerted to the mystery craft's course so that they...
...long, in Moscow, Me. Some 175 km (110 miles) away, in Columbia Falls, are three receiving antennas, each stretching nearly 1,520 meters (5,000 ft.). The whole system is controlled by 28 of Digital Equipment Corp.'s powerful VAX computers located at the operations center in Bangor...