Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treaty to the limit. Though the Soviets officially kept quiet throughout the latest fuss, it was only last week they conceded, in the arms- control talks at Geneva, that some SDI laboratory research would be acceptable. The U.S. contends the Soviets have broken the treaty by building a ! big radar installation near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. Thus Reagan and Gorbachev will have quite enough opportunity to argue about ABM adherence. The last thing they needed was another explosive interpretation to dispute...
...Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, a failed Kentucky lawyer turned smuggler and adventurer. He died while trying out the newest and most daring method yet of smuggling cocaine from South America to the U.S. Airplanes have long been a favored way to haul drugs, but federal authorities now use radar to track suspicious planes and keep watch on out-of-the-way airstrips. So smugglers have been trying to outwit police, and outdo James Bond, by using parachutes, night-vision goggles and radio beacons to make free-fall drops...
...through secure communications aboard his Grumman executive jet. Meanwhile the Saratoga, accompanied by the Aegis-class guided-missile cruiser Yorktown, was steaming in the Adriatic close to the Greek-Albanian border. All told, about 25 U.S. warships were stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, many of them with the sophisticated radar capability needed to pick the EgyptAir plane out of the heavy stream of regular Mediterranean air traffic...
...Saratoga received the order to launch its Tomcats, four to undertake the interception and three as backup. Accompanied by two of the Hawkeye radar aircraft, the fighters loitered in the vicinity of Crete. At 4:37 p.m., they received the interception order. By 5:30, they had spotted the EgyptAir plane, and the final drama began. Back at his vacation home in Bar Harbor, Me., Defense Secretary Weinberger called the President at the White House to inform him of the mission's success...
Administration officials indicate that the Kremlin during the past decade has spent ten times as much as the U.S. on "strategic defense." But that estimate lumps in antisatellite weapons, an existing missile-defense system around Moscow, radar, and even programs such as air and civil defense that the U.S. has made little or no attempt to match...