Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shall fight you on the land, on the sea and in the air, and we shall never surrender." With that Churchillian warning to smugglers, Deputy Commissioner Michael Lane of the U.S. Customs Service formally accepted two E- 2C Hawkeye radar planes from the U.S. Navy in San Diego. The ceremony was designed to showcase the high-tech weapons the Reagan Administration has committed to its war on illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar...
...fanfare that has accompanied Operation Alliance, the sweeping antidrug effort launched last August with tough speeches by Vice President George Bush and Attorney General Edwin Meese. The multiagency border interdiction program would include the addition of hundreds of new personnel, the purchase of up to seven aircraft-spotting radar balloons, the use of four Hawkeye surveillance planes, the modification of four older P-3 Orion radar aircraft for border watching and the transfer of six Black Hawk helicopters to chase drug-running planes. State and local police were to receive grants from a separate $225 million fund authorized by Congress...
...border, the high expectations raised by Operation Alliance have been belied by the program's shaky start-up. Since the kickoff, there have been few significant increases in the number of federal agents deployed in the Southwest by the Customs Service, Drug Enforcement Agency and Border Patrol. The radar picket line is at least two years from completion, and other promised equipment has yet to be delivered. The Administration has even proposed eliminating promised federal funds for state and local police in next year's budget. "The Government isn't really serious about stopping drugs," charges a veteran Customs officer...
...personnel will soon be visible. Von Raab says that "hundreds" of secure "voice-privacy" radios are being shipped to the Southwest and that 400 new Customs employees -- a 40% increase -- will be on the job within four months. Despite the cumbersome process of awarding contracts, he promised that radar planes and balloons will be in operation by next year...
...Propulsion Laboratory in California, argued that current controls were excessive. Despite the restrictions, the Soviets manage to obtain much of the sensitive technology they seek, said the group. Many of Moscow's gains come through espionage or illegal diversions from legitimate foreign customers. (One coup involved sophisticated look-down radar, originally a U.S. monopoly, now standard equipment on the latest Soviet MiG aircraft.) Meanwhile, friendly customers in Western Europe and Asia are increasingly looking outside the U.S. for goods on the dual-use list. In all, the study estimates, the controls cost the U.S. more than $9 billion in forgone...