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...French, THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT. The latest and biggest package tour to arrive at Kabul Airport looks set for a long visit. The Soviet army has pitched a tent city there. Its equipment includes hundreds of helicopters, scores of giant Antonov and Ilyushin transport aircraft, spotter planes, radar trucks, tanks, artillery, antiaircraft batteries, radio rigs, armored personnel carriers, lines of trucks, gasoline tankers, innumerable smaller vehicles. Huge transports, some in Aeroflot's blue and white paint, others in military silver, come and go. The view from the departure lounge and the airport tearoom is like Red Square...
Most of the bonanza has come not from defense work at all but from civilian contracting. Boeing has always been a vitally important supplier of high technology to the Pentagon, having produced, among other things, the Minuteman missile, the AWACS (airborne early warning radar system) and a space tug to carry satellites in NASA's Space Shuttle program. Other aerospace competitors, like McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, do far more defense-related business. Boeing last year drew only about $1.5 billion, or 17% of total revenues, from Government contracts...
...about 500 ft. in more contoured country. When the brain says that there is a barrier or hills ahead, the missile flies over or around the obstacle. In wartime, this low altitude dash and the missile's small size make it virtually untrackable and unstoppable. On enemy radar screens, the cruise is almost impossible to spot, and Mach2 fighters and surface-to-air missiles are not effective that close to the ground. The strategic theory: one cruise missile might be shot down but hundreds would overwhelm even the best and most sophisticated air defenses...
...SEVEN years old the first time I saw You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. A friend of mine and his parents took me down to the St. Mark's Place Theater in New York, where Gary Burghoff (later to gain fame as Radar of M*A*S*H) played the title role. I remember waiting for the actors to emerge after the performance so they could sign my program. I'd have probably sat through the show ten or 20 times given the chance, and most of my friends would have stayed with...
...station, as a secretary. In 1960 Rather joined KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, and a short time later literally reaped the whirlwind. As Hurricane Carla moved toward the Texas coast in September 1961, Rather took a remote unit to Galveston, where he organized the transmission of radar pictures of the huge storm to home screens and kept talking throughout three days of high wind and water. His derring-do and endurance caught the eye of CBS. Walter Cronkite remarked admiringly, if incorrectly, that Rather "was up to his ass in water moccasins." The network offered Rather a correspondent...