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...said Republican Congressman Denny Smith of Oregon, a veteran pilot who flew 189 missions over Viet Nam. Smith pointed out that the unmanned planes used in the $54 million test came in higher and slower than they would in a battle. Worse, when he investigated further, he learned that the aircraft were in fact exploded by remote ground control within seconds of each firing from Sergeant York. Smith believes that the gun never actually hit the drone planes. The Army says that the rapid-fire shots came close enough to destroy the aircraft and that the remote-controlled blasts were...
...midmorning police and military units had completely sealed off the roads leading into Daveyton, while at key intersections armored cars intercepted internal traffic. Helicopters flew overhead. Mounted policemen stood at the far edge of the cemetery, like shadowy centaurs shimmering in the dazzle of fine dust and sunlight...
French Premier Laurent Fabius flew to the South Pacific atoll of Mururoa last week to preside over a new round of underground nuclear tests. Accompanying him were Defense Minister Paul Quilès and a 21-member party of parliamentarians and journalists. Hours before the blast, officials announced that the French navy had seized the Vega, a ketch owned by the Greenpeace environmental organization, after the protest ship had entered French territorial waters near the test site. By week's end the four crew members were being taken to a nearby atoll and were awaiting expulsion...
...Reagan pored over briefing books and prepared for his first eyeball-to-eyeball summit with a leader of a nation he has made a career of denouncing, Secretary of State George Shultz flew to Moscow with National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and a dozen-odd other U.S. officials last week to lay the final groundwork for the meeting. The American team was whisked to Osobnyak, the czarist-era mansion where Soviet diplomats often conduct business. "We always expect good results from meetings," said Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze before escorting his visitors into the white marble meeting room...
...illustrate the story, TIME flew four photographers to the scene. By late Friday they had sent much of their film by commercial and chartered jets to New York City. On Saturday at 3 a.m., Deputy Picture Editor Michele Stephenson began the process of examining the 50 photographic rolls. The cover picture was selected at 4:45 a.m. Says Stephenson: "We worked on layouts through the night. The images were devastating...