Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calling the ABM move a political decision made to "deprive the Republicans of a defense issue," Lapp suggested that the U.S. should instead use its long-established deterrent policy to protect itself against possible ICBM attack by China in the 1970s. His proposal: a China Polaris patrol armed with high-yield nuclear weapons programmed to hit specific Chinese targets...
Speeding motorists will now have to contend with another highway-patrol device, one that has proved considerably more accurate than simple speedometer pacing and more flexible in operation than radar tracking. It is known as VASCAR (Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder) and consists of a small computer mounted in the front seat of a patrol car. By measuring time and distance and then converting them into an average-speed reading, it can clock automobiles coming, going or even crossing...
...when his quarry passes a second roadmark. Time is thus locked into VASCAR's computer. To measure the distance between the two reference points, the patrolman flips on the distance switch when he reaches the first point, turns it off as he passes the second. Now the patrol car's odometer has fed distance into VASCAR, which at the push of a third button automatically computes the average speed at which the motorist traveled the measured distance...
...even with the present model, VASCAR has been used with striking results. In North Carolina, where the state highway patrol began using it last December, the number of speeding arrests increased substantially, and as a consequence auto accident fatalities dropped sharply to 142 from 214 the previous December. The device is so accurate that in New York, out of 1,000 motorists arrested through VASCAR, not one has yet disputed his citation. How accurate? Well, Indiana, which has 21 of the units and has ordered 100 more (at $895 each), tested the computer against the Indianapolis Speedway's ultrasophisticated...
...equipment lost by the Arabs in the war, including 80 new MIG-21 fighters and SU-9 fighter-bombers and 200 tanks for Egypt, 40 planes and 100 tanks for Syria and 20 planes for Iraq. In addition, the Russians have given Egypt, Syria and Algeria some 40 Komar patrol boats, which carry the Styx missile of the type that sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said last October. The Soviets have doubled the number of military advisers in Egypt to at least 2,000 and have sent large training missions to Algeria, Iraq, Syria and Yemen...