Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal power, Likudnik David Levy has been trying to sabotage the unity government. At last month's Herut party convention, which is the core of the Likud bloc, Levy formed an ad hoc alliance with Ariel Sharon to divert delegates' attention away from the agenda and undermine Shamir's leadership...
...Prowler helped divert the Libyan-fired SA-5 Gammon missiles that touched off the skirmishing. After the incoming missiles were detected, the Prowler's five underwing jamming devices mimicked the radar signature of U.S. aircraft, creating dozens of false targets at a safe distance from U.S. ships. Meanwhile, the U.S.S. Ticonderoga's advanced electronic Aegis system scanned the gulf for enemy planes...
...long- range surface-to-air missiles. Weighing about five tons apiece, the 54- ft.- long weapons are designed primarily to engage slow-moving targets like B-52 bombers. But Moscow was doubtless unhappy to note that speedy U.S. fighters could not only outmaneuver the SA-5s but also, evidently, divert them...
...centering the debate on the penalty issue, the NRA can divert our attention from the rest of the bill and its potential to increase gun-related crimes. The NRA must hide its true motivation and bury the fact that additional violent crime is the price which society must pay in exchange for easing restrictions on--and subsequently increasing the profits of--handgun dealers...
Further muddying the debate, is that some advocates of increasing the Midgetman's size actually do not want the missile but hope to divert funds to the MX. Amid the confused crossfire, Washington is in danger of losing sight of the basic strategic issue involved: a small mobile missile can help make America's land-based arsenal more secure while at the same time making the nuclear balance more stable...