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...shall fight you on the land, on the sea and in the air, and we shall never surrender." With that Churchillian warning to smugglers, Deputy Commissioner Michael Lane of the U.S. Customs Service formally accepted two E- 2C Hawkeye radar planes from the U.S. Navy in San Diego. The ceremony was designed to showcase the high-tech weapons the Reagan Administration has committed to its war on illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar...
...exactly what he was supposed to do," said Tom Doyle, an assistant air-traffic manager at the main airport. As for the Mooney, Doyle said, "I don't know where that aircraft was." Investigators said the Mooney may have been "squawking" with a transponder -- a device that amplifies its radar reflection -- since printouts indicate its blip may have appeared on one radar screen. If so, why had the controller not warned the commuter pilot? A possible explanation: the Mooney was not transmitting information on its altitude, and thus the danger was not apparent...
...Mooney pilot, moreover, had not checked in with controllers as required. "He busted the ARSA," said Don Moffit, a Salt Lake City tower manager, referring to the Airport Radar Service Area in which all planes must be directed by controllers...
...Propulsion Laboratory in California, argued that current controls were excessive. Despite the restrictions, the Soviets manage to obtain much of the sensitive technology they seek, said the group. Many of Moscow's gains come through espionage or illegal diversions from legitimate foreign customers. (One coup involved sophisticated look-down radar, originally a U.S. monopoly, now standard equipment on the latest Soviet MiG aircraft.) Meanwhile, friendly customers in Western Europe and Asia are increasingly looking outside the U.S. for goods on the dual-use list. In all, the study estimates, the controls cost the U.S. more than $9 billion in forgone...
...most critical deficiency is the failure of the sophisticated electronic countermeasure devices -- the "black boxes" designed to jam antiaircraft radar and missiles. So dissatisfied is the Pentagon with the equipment that it is withholding payments to the manufacturer, Eaton Corp. Shortcomings in the jamming hardware, for example, have triggered difficulties with other elements of the aircraft's computer "brain," with unforeseeable consequences. Some $104 million of the money requested for repairing the B-1B is earmarked for this software system. Last week Eaton tacitly confirmed its problems with the black box by ousting the manager of the B-1B electronics...