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...Ilyushin 62 jet carrying 130 people, including Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, approached New York City's Kennedy Airport on the afternoon of Jan. 18, something went dangerously awry in the control tower. The letters and numbers identifying a blip on the radar screen as the Soviet plane suddenly disappeared. An unidentified voice then ordered the Soviet pilot to descend from 8,000 ft. to 4,000 ft., into airspace that is normally reserved for small planes. For three minutes-and six miles-the jetliner flew at low altitude over heavily populated Long Island, until a tower supervisor discovered what...
...long been denied to Moscow, meaning that tariffs on Peking's goods will be reduced to the lowest rates levied on imports from other U.S. trading partners. The Defense Department announced that the U.S. is now willing to sell China military equipment, including trucks, communications gear and early-warning radar, but no weapons. The Air Force flew several B-52s from Guam over Soviet ships in the Indian Ocean to demonstrate U.S. ability to project military power in the area. Said a Pentagon official: "If that message was lost on them, their hearing aids were turned...
Fazal's divisions are armed with such obsolete equipment as 2½-ton American trucks, reconditioned after the Korean War. Roads in the area are not wide enough for modern tanks, and radar is virtually nonexistent along the western frontier. Nonetheless, Fazal estimated that the border could be made defensible within ten months by widening roads, upgrading communications and improving local railroads. The cost: $1 billion...
...Wednesday, 7 p.m.-ll p.m.: ate dinner, read texts on radar for term paper, slept 2½ hours. 1 1 p.m.3 a.m.: deck watch...
...machines suggested that if a single worker came in 15 minutes early each morning to warm up all the machines, everyone could start work as soon as he arrived. The saving: about $22,000 a year. - Another circle, of people who use color-coded tapes to assemble transformers for radar systems, recommended that each worker be given his own tape machine rather than sharing on a three-for-one basis. The twelve extra machines cost $174, but the company saves some $11,000 a year in production time. - A purchasing-department circle noted that when supplies were ordered, many vendors...