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Cruise missiles essentially amount to updated versions of the Nazis' World War II buzz bombs: small, pilotless jet planes that can be launched from land, ships or planes. The Air Force's cruise missiles fly at 550 m.p.h. about 50 ft. above the ground. That enables them to slip under the Soviets' line-of-sight radar to deliver 200-kiloton nuclear warheads with astounding accuracy-within 100 ft. of their targets. One version, the ALCM-A (for air-launched cruise missile), has a range of 750 miles. A second version, the ALCM-B, has extra fuel tanks...
...Falls Church, Va., another division, Melpar, builds radar jammers and pilotless "drone" aircraft that can be programmed to fly over an enemy's turf, photograph installations and drop bombs. Another division in Dallas makes high-technology civilian products, including tiny devices that can be used to foil bank robbers. Placed in a teller's drawer, the device will trigger an alarm when a teller removes the last bill in a stack, thus reducing pressure...
...Actually, the small oddball aircraft winging at 60 m.p.h. was Jefferson County's new law-enforcement weapon out for a test flight. Designed and built out of balsa wood and plastic by sheriffs deputies (who are also model-airplane buffs), the new gadget patrolling the skies was a pilotless plane remotely controlled from the ground. The 8-lb. airborne arsenal can carry up to 2 Ibs. of smoke bombs and tear-gas canisters-to say nothing of grenades and other explosives -strapped to its underbelly...
...ensure a seat-shaking rumble for the audience. Universal will also release Airport 1975, a sequel to its earlier high-and-mightily profitable Airport. In this terminal picture, Earthquake Survivor Heston attempts a mid-air transfer from a helicopter to aid Stewardess Karen Black in landing a disabled and pilotless 747. Later the studio will re-create the burning of the Hindenburg, with George C. Scott and a specially built 60-ft. demidirigible...
Along the Suez Canal there were ripples of unrest. The Israelis complained to UNEF that Egyptian troop advances were taking place along the western shore of the Great Bitter Lake, threatening Israeli supply lines. Later they announced that Egyptian missiles had shot down a pilotless Israeli drone plane on a reconnaissance flight over the canal. But at Geneva both sides still seemed eager to put an optimistic face on their negotiations. At week's end they announced that they had reached "consensus on some principles of disengagement." If they can reach an agreement on this critical problem within...