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...miles away. Closer in, its Italian-made OTO gun can fire 3-in. antiaircraft shells at a rate of 90 a minute, dealing sequentially with as many as three incoming intruders at a range of up to twelve miles. Rockets that spray radar- attracting aluminum chaff can divert incoming missiles, and the frigate's electronic defenses can deceive attackers by producing fake radar images of the ship...
...frontier city of Khost, near the border with Pakistan, requires a zigzagging flight of nearly an hour and a half. Taking off from the capital, lumbering Soviet-made An-26 transports climb steadily in defensive spirals. From pods mounted on their fuselages, they trail bright orange flares to divert heat-seeking Stinger missiles that the mujahedin rebels might launch from hidden positions below...
...long as men and women engage in politics there will be rumors of sexual misconduct. Should the press scrutinize them as it did the Hart scandle, or should the press, as it did when confronted with rumors about Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, discretely divert its eyes...
...joke there, dude. But seriously, why bother with the whole artificial death scene, man, I mean in the end it's all the same, right? I'm for just hanging loose, dude, like playing it fully casual--I say let's place a moratorium on doomsday machines, and then divert funds meant for the Defense Department to the Grateful Dead. You in, dude...
...second flaw in the argument is that all convictions require two basic criteria to be satisfied--criminal action and criminal intent. Even if it is proven that the Administration did divert the funds, it appears that President Reagan had no intent to do so. Now this, admitedly, is a problem in itself. The failure of North and Poindexter to consult the President on a decision of this magnitude is inexcusable. However, this does not mean that the President's management style of letting subordinates pursue policy objective without requireing White House approval of every detail should be completely discarded. This...