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...year military plan extending through 1995. Among Miranda's documents is an agreement outlining the plan, which specifies that Nicaragua will receive twelve MiGs, an additional squadron of Mi-24 combat choppers, and medium-range surface-to-air missiles. Miranda notes that the Sandinistas could use the MiGs to intercept supply flights to the U.S.-backed contras. The Reagan Administration has repeatedly warned that the delivery of MiGs to Nicaragua would be unacceptable and has hinted that it might provoke an armed U.S. response...
Zenith Star stands as a symbol for the ailments besetting the entire Star Wars program. Slowed by development problems and weakened by funding cuts, SDI is a far cry from achieving Reagan's four-year-old dream of a system that could "intercept and destroy" all incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles...
...exchange of information is vital to continued progress in fast-changing fields like computers and lasers. But such openness provides the Soviets with valuable opportunities. For years, the large Soviet consulate in San Francisco has served as an intelligence center from which Moscow monitors Silicon Valley. Soviet agents routinely intercept scientists' telephone calls, sift through unclassified technical publications and, on occasion, plant moles in U.S. industries. For the most part, however, the transfer of technology takes place along quasi-normal lines: through firms in Europe, Japan or elsewhere that are used to transship the pilfered goods to Eastern Europe...
...could make life more austere in Kim's kingdom. Lawyers representing the creditor banks are already scouting for North Korean assets to seize, including reserves believed to be stashed in bank accounts in Switzerland, Austria, West Germany and elsewhere. There is speculation too that the creditors could try to intercept the shipments of gold, worth about $27 million each, that Pyongyang sells each month through the London bullion market. Juche, in other words, could encompass even harder times ahead...
...Certainly the Stark, a lightly armed escort vessel, had an impressive array of aerial defenses. The ship's Mk 92 fire-control system can guide an antiaircraft missile to intercept incoming aircraft up to 90 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...