Word: interceptible
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...Crimson's final goal came on a boneheaded Bulldog play later in the stanza. With a crowd milling in front of the net, a Blue defender cleverly tried to slip the ball to Harthun--allowing forward Electa Sevier to intercept the pass and pop it in for goal number three...
Before Reagan approved the mission, TIME has learned, Israel was asked to help back it up. Major General Uri Simhoni, the Israeli defense attache in Washington, promised that if the U.S. plan went awry, "we will intercept (the Egyptian pilot) and force him to land at one of our air force bases in the Negev...
Administration officials would not reveal who first came up with the interception scheme, or when. At a Friday press conference, National Security Adviser McFarlane said only that Reagan's "community of advisers" proposed the idea "on the road," meaning on the way to Chicago. At about 11:50 a.m., as a presidential motorcade wended its way to a Sara Lee bakery in Deerfield, Ill., McFarlane informed a White House staffer that the Egyptian plane bearing the hijackers would leave Cairo at about 4 p.m. EDT. After Reagan held forth on tax reform at the bakery, McFarlane informed the President...
Peking reacted to South Korea's harboring of the stricken vessel by putting its forces on alert; Seoul quickly did the same. Three Chinese warships, sent to retrieve the fugitive boat, entered South Korean waters, and the Koreans sent ships and jet fighters to intercept the interlopers. But the tense situation was quickly defused by U.S. diplomacy late on Friday. "We were asked to convey messages between the Chinese and the Koreans," commented a Washington official. Though China and South Korea do not maintain diplomatic relations, they have been edging toward a rapprochement. Neither side, it seems, wanted to allow...
...perhaps the best-kept secret of the mission. Many other details had been leaked to the press, prompting the Pentagon to start an investigation of the alleged security breach. The shuttle's main cargo was a military intelligence satellite called a SIGINT (for "signals intelligence"), which is able to intercept electronic messages. The 6,000- lb. bird was to be spring-ejected from the shuttle, then rocket-propelled into a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. The satellite will allow the U.S. to eavesdrop on traffic between Moscow and Soviet missile command centers. Using radar and infrared...