Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice William H. Rehnquist's fitness to be Chief Justice, the Arlington, Va., police disclosed that in at least one way Rehnquist is up to speed -- and then some. Two weeks ago police in Arlington clocked him doing 41 in a 30-m.p.h. zone known to locals as a radar trap. Rehnquist, 61, was charged with speeding, failing to have his car's registration in his possession, and failing to have his driver's license updated. He faces $82 in fines...
...investigators speculated that Kramer had made two critical mistakes: he had not sought permission by radio to enter the restricted area; and although his radar transponder was on, as required, it was not equipped to transmit the mandatory altitude information. John Lauber, heading the investigation for the National Transportation Safety Board, reported that the controller said he did not recall seeing the Piper's blip. Even if he had seen it, said Lauber, "if he doesn't have altitude information, then it's a reasonable assumption for him that the aircraft is not operating in the terminal control area...
...foreign force, the Administration would not be raising the question of Gramm-Rudman," says Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of Harlem. This week the House will take up a $2 billion-to-$3 billion antidrug package that will fund every weapon in the war on drugs, from more radar balloons for the border patrol to more drug-treatment centers in the ghetto...
Soviet officials said the rescuers had saved 836 people and recovered 116 bodies; 282 were missing and presumed drowned. Nedyak refused to speculate about the cause of the accident. Both vessels, he said, were equipped with radar, and the Admiral Nakhimov was in sound condition. "Evidently," he said, "the ships are not at fault, people are at fault...
...seizures came as speculation grew that the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was readying its long-awaited "final offensive." During the week, Iran launched a new ground attack across the Iraqi border in the north and used frogmen to sabotage an Iraqi offshore radar station...