Word: radar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel's closely knit, family-oriented society, its people often stay abreast of the war by word of mouth. When the Israelis captured and carried off an entire Egyptian radar station on Dec. 26, half of Tel Aviv knew about it within 24 hours. "My wife heard about it at the hairdresser's," an Israeli officer recalls. "My daughter heard about it at her dancing school." But the government did not confirm the story to newsmen for more than a week, and has been similarly slow or suppressive with other information for foreigners...
...highly visible, activist administrator, flying out personally to investigate every major crash. (On one trip, his plane brushed the wing of a Viscount while taxiing; after Halaby reported the incident, his FAA fined him $50.) He also framed new safety regulations calling for, among other things, improved radar and computerized air-traffic control and separate airways for jets and slower piston-en-gined aircraft. During Halaby's tenure, the airline fatality rate dropped by nearly two-thirds. Just before he resigned in 1965, Halaby flew an FAA JetStar from Los Angeles to Washington, checking in by radio with ground-control...
...into an ash-gray cauldron of 20-foot waves, five Israeli-manned gunboats scooted to Haifa last week on a 3,000-mile dash from the northern French port of Cherbourg. At various points, they were tracked by French reconnaissance planes, an R.A.F. Canberra from Malta, Soviet tankers, the radar forests of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, television cameramen and even Italian fishermen. From a distance, the world watched with emotions ranging from amusement to outrage. In a twist on old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy, Israel had retrieved $10 million worth of naval vessels, circumventing France's embargo on arms sales...
...original Egyptian markings and manned by Israeli commandos dressed in Egyptian-type uniforms, to stage a ten-hour raid along Egypt's side of the Suez Canal. In their most recent raid, commandos slipped across the Gulf of Suez, made a 90-minute forced march to an Egyptian radar site near Ras Gharib and dismantled the seven-ton Soviet-made radar unit. Helicopters whisked the entire installation, housed in two huge vans, 17 miles into Israeli-held territory, along with four captured Egyptian technicians. The year-old P12 radar unit has a range of nearly 200 miles, controls both...