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...cloud-type ABM system would be relatively simple and inexpensive for the Soviets. Many of their 10,000 surface-to-air missiles now deployed could be converted to ABM use. The Russians have already displayed their skill in spreading high-flying aerosols; in 1968, they blinded U.S. radar with a metallic "mist" during the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The U.S. has made only paper studies of cloud-type ABM systems, and as yet has no plans for any operational tests. Said a U.S. defense official of the Soviet system: "It's one of those better mousetraps that appear...
...Tora! Tora! Tora! demonstrates, the infamy was double-edged. Late in 1940, American cryptographers cracked the Japanese code and predicted war-to deaf ears. An hour before the bombing, the Japanese raiders were detected as blips on a primitive radar screen-and were dismissed by American officers as "our B-17s." As a compound tragedy of omission and commission, the events leading down to Dec. 7 could provide the grossest scenarists with a wide-screen epic. Those, apparently, are the ones 20th Century-Fox hired...
Apart from relying on the guards, at present there is little a pilot can do but turn on his radar beacon to inform ground control that he is in trouble. However, the Federal Aviation Administration said last week that it had developed a new secret hijacking deterrent to be installed on all new airliners and eventually on all planes. Another suggestion, reported by The Times of London, is that security guards could shoot anaesthetic bullets "as used for rhinoceros...
Thanks to mergers, International Controls has since swelled into a mini-conglomerate, with sales of $100 million, 4,000 employees and 31 factories that make aircraft parts, bomb casings, radar components and dozens of other items. "We've built ourselves on financial agility," boasts Vesco. He persuaded Hale Bros. Associates, a San Francisco investment firm that controls the Broadway-Hale department store chain, to become an early backer by buying $80,000 of stock. I.C.C. was one of the first U.S. firms to tap the hoard of Eurodollars, raising $25 million through an issue of debentures...
EARLY one morning at the Nicosia airport on Cyprus, an American pilot filed a routine flight plan that would take his privately owned, unmarked Martin 202 directly to either Naples or Athens. Alerted by Interpol, the Nicosia air controllers were suspicious. Trailing the plane on radar, they watched it head toward Lebanon. The plane flew so low that it eluded Beirut radar, but Lebanese police started an immediate countrywide search. Within minutes, a police patrol found the Martin 202 parked alongside a large truck on a remote airstrip in the hashish-growing area of Baalbek, near the Syrian border...