Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both sides are saying. For the Administration, one senior official concedes: "We're done on the policy side. We're out of business. We're waiting for the election." In Congress, the Senators and Representatives who reconvened last week are likely to ignore their own command, expressed in the budget resolution they passed in June, to raise $73 billion in new revenue during the next three fiscal years. Any bill to increase taxes, says Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House, "would have to come from the President or the Republican Party...
...from complete, and will be kept secret when it is. But some who have participated described to TIME preliminary conclusions that are mostly, though not entirely, reassuring. To begin with, they assert, the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces operate under an entirely different set of instructions from the air-defense command: only top civilian leaders can give the order to fire a nuclear missile at any target anywhere...
...result of 007's reduced speed, or his own miscalculation, Pilot 805 begins to overshoot the jetliner. Ground control apparently orders the Su-15 to remain behind it. The pilot is forced to drop back, grumbling at the lateness of the command. "It should have been earlier," he complains. "How can I chase it? I'm already abeam of the target . . . Now I have to fall back from the target." He confirms the airliner's position: 70° to his left...
...confirmed that it was a commercial 747. The passenger plane is 50% larger than the RC-135. Its navigation and strobe lights were on. (Asked about the lights, Ogarkov asserted that the trailing Soviet fighter "saw these lights on the first Soviet plane and reported so to the Soviet command post." In fact, the transcripts clearly show that it was the first Soviet fighter, the Su-15, which twice reported that "the target's" lights were visible...
...Phoenix, metal lawn signs in front of homes warn burglars that gun-wielding guards will greet them if they enter. In Cleveland, a school for canines turns tail-wagging family pooches into snarling guard dogs. In Los Angeles, uniformed attendants at a bunker-like command post study screens and consoles day and night, watching for signs of home break-ins. When an alarm goes off, they lift a red telephone to summon police, or bark out a microphone command that dispatches members of their own gun-toting security force...