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...marines were flown to Managua the next day to protect lives and property and stabilize the Somoza regime. The determination of successive administrations to keep Somoza in power is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the U.S. government continues to violate its own laws in order to funnel aid to Somoza. Specifically, the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act prohibits aid to foreign police forces--but the National Guard is Nicaragua's police force. (It is also the army. But there is no real threat of foreign invasions; the only real threat is from the Nicaraguan masses...
Calabrese said he is aware of a sentiment among more radical students that the Student Assembly could diffuse energy previously funneled into effective demonstrations against the administration. "I don't think there is a grand conspiracy to co-opt student power, but I think it has occurred to them [Harvard administrators] that if they don't provide for student input into University decisions, they'll have a dangerous situation on their hands ...They probably realize it's in their own best interest to work with the Student Assembly instead of ad hoc demonstrations. This will funnel student energies so that...
...area (see diagram). Planes under instrument landing control are now brought through the approach area to the runway one at a time in a long single file, like a string of elephants entering a circus arena. The MLS lets planes head into what is, in effect, a huge electronic funnel whose gaping mouth is 80° wide and 20° high (the ILS glide path is only 6° wide and 1.4° high). With MLS, arriving aircraft can enter from several directions at different speeds, flying various curved approaches toward separate electronic "gates." MLS will thus permit more efficient...
...than 60 countries gathered in Montreal for a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the struggle had degenerated into a rancorous technological dogfight between the U.S. and Britain. Through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. was urging adoption of an American-built MLS in which the electronic funnel is created by two narrow radio beams-one sweeping horizontally, the other vertically. From the varying time intervals between the aircraft's interception of these rapid back-and-forth sweeps, an on-board computer can determine precisely where the plane is in the funnel, how steeply it is descending...
...station platform hears a high-pitched whistle as the train approaches and a low-pitched one after it passes by, the approaching aircraft's computer senses an increase in frequency of the radio signals from the horizontal antennas when the aircraft is on one side of the electronic funnel's center line. When it is on the other, a drop in frequency occurs. A similar Doppler shift, as it is called, would be detected in the signals from vertical antennas to establish elevation...