Word: radar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion in war materiel to some 80 nations, ranging from submarines for the navies of Spain, Portugal, Pakistan and South Africa to daggers for Tunisian commando units. The best-selling French items: various models of the Mirage supersonic fighters, the agile and swift AMX tanks, Alouette helicopters and radar-guided Exocet antiship missiles...
...made his pitch, stressing the importance of controlling the high ground and maintaining an effective "electronic alert." Evan, deputy commander of Israel's southern front and an armored expert who fought at Mitla Pass in '67, declined to explain what he meant by the term, but Israeli radar and listening devices round the Mitla are said to be so effective that they can detect Egyptian MIGs preparing for takeoff at bases several miles west of the Suez Canal...
Sadat's agreement with France for up to 50 new Mirage F1s, along with AMX-30 tanks, Crotale surface-to-air missiles, French radar systems and $116 million in credits, will ease that pressure. Meanwhile, with help from Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing Arab states, Sadat is shifting from MIGs to Mirages in his air force and replacing most of the 120 planes that Egypt lost in the 1973 war. Sadat's success in securing arms has confounded his critics and eased pressures considerably...
...instructions on how to shut off the helium supply and checked out. He turned in his radiation counter--he hadn't absorbed much today--and was ushered out the back door by a security guard, a reminder of the classified work that goes on in the labs, an old radar-research center from World...
...radarscope of a Coast Guard vessel sailing near by in the triangle. There is no record of this event on any of its ships' logs, the Coast Guard says. But even if it were recorded, a spokesman points out, the momentary disappearance of a ship on a radar screen is a common occurrence, the result of rain clutter, sea "return" or other natural causes. Berlitz's claim that several planes have "mysteriously disintegrated over land within a short distance of the Miami airport, including Eastern Airlines Flight 401," is disputed by Jim Fraser, the Federal Aviation Administration coordinator...