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...high toll? First, as Air Force spokesmen are quick to point out, the B-52s were invading the "most heavily defended antiaircraft area in the world"-at least in conventional-weapons terms. Since the October bombing halt, the Soviet Union has shipped enormous quantities of missiles and improved radar systems into the North, and the North Vietnamese fired them this round with a prodigality never before displayed. U.S. Air Force officials estimate that 50 to 60 SAM "telephone poles" were fired at each three-plane B-52 formation, or "cell." While a cell's electronic defenses can cope with...
Damage Scars. The B-52s employ sophisticated "electronic countermeasures" (ECM) to confuse enemy radar, but the North Vietnamese have been using increasingly effective equipment and techniques of their own to break the electronic "bubbles" surrounding the B-52s. The Communists also have modern Soviet surface-to-air missiles, which they are firing in heavy barrages. With so many targets, they were bound to hit something. Besides the downed B-52s, others were seen returning to Guam bearing damage scars...
More seriously, Fiumicino can be perilous. According to Aviation Writer Francesco Perego, "Our radar and radio assistance are the least efficient in Europe." Fiumicino has to make do with only two radar installations, and operations experts say that more are needed. The harried air-traffic controllers are all members of the military, and each has to direct 15 to 20 planes at a time, compared with two or three for their counterparts in London and eight to ten in Paris. The wonder is that the airport has only about 40 near collisions annually and has had no major air accidents...
...column appeared in 1,200 newspapers worldwide. A celebrated feuder, most notably with Orson Welles over his film Citizen Kane, which she said ridiculed William Randolph Hearst, she was also a tireless reporter with sharp instincts for a story and an early-warning radar for scandal. Two of her biggest exposés were the Douglas Fairbanks-Mary Pickford divorce and Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini...
...homecoming were mostly friendly, with helium-filled OPERATION WELCOME balloons lifting off the pier and mothers of crewmen's children born since the ship sailed waving from a special stand. But as the giant vessel came to port, two black crewmen, framed against the disk of the radar screen, lifted their fists in the black power salute...