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More important is the mechanism which actually steers the robot, a camera which sends out a signal and gets reflections from objects back--in the same way a radar does--and adjusts its direction accordingly, Jury says...
Midnights might as well have been scribbled on the back of an old Dairy Queen bag in the squad ear as he sat alone at 3 a.m., keeping a sleepy eye on the radar gun he had trained on the highway. Moonshine is written by a city-slicker on his Macintosh in his Manhattan studio after he returned from going down south to find out how the country mice live...
...treaty to the limit. Though the Soviets officially kept quiet throughout the latest fuss, it was only last week they conceded, in the arms- control talks at Geneva, that some SDI laboratory research would be acceptable. The U.S. contends the Soviets have broken the treaty by building a ! big radar installation near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. Thus Reagan and Gorbachev will have quite enough opportunity to argue about ABM adherence. The last thing they needed was another explosive interpretation to dispute...
...through secure communications aboard his Grumman executive jet. Meanwhile the Saratoga, accompanied by the Aegis-class guided-missile cruiser Yorktown, was steaming in the Adriatic close to the Greek-Albanian border. All told, about 25 U.S. warships were stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, many of them with the sophisticated radar capability needed to pick the EgyptAir plane out of the heavy stream of regular Mediterranean air traffic...
...Saratoga received the order to launch its Tomcats, four to undertake the interception and three as backup. Accompanied by two of the Hawkeye radar aircraft, the fighters loitered in the vicinity of Crete. At 4:37 p.m., they received the interception order. By 5:30, they had spotted the EgyptAir plane, and the final drama began. Back at his vacation home in Bar Harbor, Me., Defense Secretary Weinberger called the President at the White House to inform him of the mission's success...