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...install considerably more electronic gear in ground listening posts than can be carried by satellites. This is especially important in monitoring missile launchings and impacts. The sensitive equipment, like sophisticated radar, can calculate an ICBM's length and diameter and thus contribute significantly to SALT II verification. Reason: under the expected terms of the accord, if such dimensions are increased or decreased by more than 5%, the weapon would have to be designated as a "new type" of missile and be subject to a sharp limitation on deployment. (Some critics of SALT caution that the margin of error...
...innocent-looking house by the side of the Florida road was in little danger of getting a speeding ticket: it was clocked at only 28 m.p.h. But a seemingly stationary palm tree was zipping along at a frightening 86 m.p.h. Or so recorded a radar unit, similar to ones used by police, that was tested for accuracy by Miami television station WTVJ. After the demonstration exposed such ludicrous errors, Judge Alfred Nesbitt ordered 950 speeding cases held in abeyance while he began a hearing on whether or not to accept radar readings as evidence...
Meanwhile Soviet freighters at Haiphong were unloading resupplies of sophisticated hardware, including missiles and radar equipment. Soviet reconnaissance kept watch on the battlefronts with high-altitude sorties over the Gulf of Tonkin. A flotilla of 13 Soviet ships cruised the South China Sea, awaiting the arrival of the flagship of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, the 16,000-ton cruiser Admiral Senyavin...
...into Soviet hands than to chart a treacherous course of blowing up the planes or seeking to fly them to a safe destination. Pentagon officials said that the critical electronic guidance systems the Soviets would like to confiscate and study have been safely transplanted to secure locations. But the radar dishes along Iran's northern border with the Soviet Union are still targeted for destruction if they should be placed in jeopardy. The radar sites are used for monitoring Soviet missile launchings and air and troop movement. They are important for U.S. defense, but will be less crucial after...
...narrative tongue and the sweet will to use it); Gloria Carter Spann (Jimmy's nearest sister, wife to a Plains farmer and the most retiring and impressive of the circle); Miss Allie Smith (Rosalynn's serene but clearly strong mother); and Jimmy and Rosalynn themselves (attentive as radar stations on the DEW line and pleasanter...