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...district administrators arranged the ferry schedule to get businessmen to their offices on time and ensured dependable performance by ordering maintenance engineers to work every night to keep the craft shipshape. The district also placed two captains on board, one to steer and the other to man the radar set during the Bay's frequent mists and fogs...
...landing system. In California, some witnesses said that the Phantom, from the El Toro Marine Air Station, had been making barrel rolls-stunt flying-before it collided with the airliner, which was on its correct path from Los Angeles International Airport. It remains for the sole survivor, a Marine radar officer who bailed out, to explain what a military plane was doing making barrel rolls near one of the world's busiest airports...
...with their tray to the funeral of Gamal." The Russian tray, however, was scarcely filled with food. After post-funeral discussions with Sadat, the Russians accelerated their shipments of military supplies to Egypt. This year, up to 150 MIG-21s have been delivered by sea along with added missiles, radar systems and tanks...
Bargaining Chip. The White House insists, for several reasons, on considering the whole mix of offensive and defensive weapons simultaneously. For one thing, many U.S. disarmament experts warn that the Soviets, by improving the radar and rocketry in the SA-5 surface-to-air missiles now located around Russia's western cities, could upgrade that anti-aircraft system into an instant ABM network. More important is the argument that an ABM-only agreement would squander a bargaining chip. That chip is the U.S.'s Safeguard ABM, now under construction at Air Force bases in North Dakota, Montana...
...radar, communications and weather station and a refueling base for R.A.F. planes on the London-Singapore run, Gan is little more than a runway in the middle of nowhere. It is so far out and so tiny it literally bristles with radio navigation aids to keep airplanes from missing it entirely...