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Peter Ashton, director of the Arboretum, said last week he hopes to initiate a park ranger program--at a cost of $50,000--to increase security because Boston police cannot adequately patrol the wooded sections of the complex...
...time of the attack, the Sheffield, a modern, computerized ship commissioned in 1975, and known in the British fleet as "the shiny Sheff," was on radar patrol about 70 miles from the Falklands. Its main duty was to protect the vulnerable aircraft carrier Hermes from air attack. Instead, the destroyer fell victim. At least two, and possibly three, French-built fighters, including at least one Super-Etendard fighter-bomber, were about 550 miles from a mainland airbase, presumably at Rio Gallegos, and nearing the limit of their combat range when the radar on a Super-Etendard locked...
...British used another combat-untested weapon to sink one Argentine patrol boat last week and damage another. Lynx helicopters operating from one of the task force's destroyers or frigates fired British-built Sea Skua missiles, air-to-ship weapons that have been deployed by the Royal Navy for less than a year. Many details of the Sea Skua remain secret, but it is a sausage-shaped device, 8 ft. long and weighing about...
Designed for helicopter launch, the missile is believed to have a range of about nine miles, greater than that of the antiaircraft weapons it is likely to encounter on its intended victims, small boats and patrol craft. To use it, a helicopter flies close enough to let its radar light up the target with radio energy, which, when reflected, provides a guiding point for the missile's homing computer. The Sea Skua streaks to its destination at over 550 m.p.h. and as little as 6 ft. above the surface. It is designed to penetrate the target before exploding...
...local sheriff to bolster his thinly spread paid forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill Moore. Volunteers patrol by twos in cars 17 hours a day and summon the professional cops by radio if they spot serious trouble. As part of "vacation watch," a posse patrolman will also check doors and windows for residents who leave town. And always, posse members are alert for an outsider who does not appear...