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...leaders could be sure that the U.S. would leave those missiles in the ground once it was certain that Soviet warheads were on their way. The Kremlin leaders would have to reckon with the possibility that during the 30 minutes' warning that the U.S. President would have from satellites, radar and other means, he would decide to shoot the works...
...Soviets were to strike first. The system also has numerous and sophisticated built-in safeguards that make the danger of accidental war quite remote. True, there have been false alerts, and Ground Zero's Roger Molander recalls a bizarre incident in the mid-1960s when a newly installed radar warning system mistook the rising of the moon for a massive Soviet missile attack. Still, the fear that a faulty computer chip, a flock of geese or a mad lieutenant could push a crisis beyond the point of no return has been exaggerated...
...greeted at the airport by a line of smiling Vietnamese officials, then loaded into several black Volga sedans. As they rode toward the capital, the Americans noticed that much of the countryside had the appearance of a nation on military alert; antiaircraft guns loomed over bomb craters, and camouflaged radar antennae poked their way out of thatch-roofed huts...
...saying this, lounging in a room off Oiler Coach Glen Sather's office, showing game films of favorite goals, his teammates are out on the rink having their shots timed by a radar gun. Since scoring last in team strength tests, Gretzky has shied from such gauges. "My shot wouldn't be close to the fastest," he laughs. So if he is not the strongest and his shot is not the hardest, is he the best skater? "No way." Then what is it about...
...bases on Saudi territory. Weinberger offered last week to help the Saudis and the smaller gulf states build a regional arms industry, but the proposal seems to have gone unheard. Weinberger did not even announce that the letters of agreement for the $8.5 billion Saudi purchase of U.S. AWACS radar warning planes had been signed, although he had been expected to do so. Presumably the Secretary once again urged Fahd to visit Washington, a trip the Crown Prince has canceled twice during the past year, but there was no hint that Fahd intended to accept the invitation in the near...