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...exchanged thundering barrages of artillery across the Shatt al Arab estuary. Iraqi infantrymen intent on consolidating their sliver of captured Iranian territory took heavy losses in hand-to-hand fighting for possession of three key towns and a vital port installation. Iranian Phantom fighter-bombers streaked low under the radar in deep penetration raids all the way to the enemy capital of Baghdad. Beneath the orange fireballs and black smoke gushing from bombarded storage tanks, the oil refining and shipping facilities of both countries suffered such severe damage that years of reconstruction, and billions of dollars, might be required...
...then rolls through. Once across the intersection, he notices a police car not far behind. He reports this to his passenger, who says he doesn't care and tells Arthur, "You won't be bothered for speeding here." But Arthur lets the speedometer rest at 35. He's seen radar guns out in Arlington at 3 a.m., he tells the man in back. "Radar's a joke," the man replies, "You can catch a tree doing 40." Or a cab at 60. Arthur's had so many speeding tickets that he can't afford to insure...
...said that no spare parts for French weapons in the Iraqi arsenal would be forthcoming while the fighting continued. But he said that France would honor a $1.6 billion arms agreement with Iraq involving the sale of 60 Mirage F-l jet fighters, as well as tanks, antitank weapons, radar, guided missiles and patrol boats-all part of an Iraqi attempt to diversify its weapons inventory away from total dependence on the Soviet Union...
...scientists foreshadowed their later discoveries of radar and the micro computer (1948) by developing the first radio tubes. Willie Marconi was not present...
...that, Pentagon officials concede, still does not make the Stealth totally invisible. Soviet radar and other detection devices eventually would pick up a Stealth-type bomber, but the hope is they could not fix its location, speed and altitude until too late. By then, the plane could have launched cruise missiles or even dropped bombs...