Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lazard Freres helped put ITT together: "Under Harold Geneen, ITT was a company that essentially knew no limits. He thought anything was manageable." The result was a corporation that in 1979 had 370,000 employees in more than 100 countries. Among its multitude of ventures, ITT is currently manufacturing radar in Los Angeles, television sets in West Germany, shock absorbers in The Netherlands and radios in Zimbabwe, and is helping Egypt to rebuild Cairo's water-treatment system. ITT last year dropped its original name, International Telephone & Telegraph, because it gives no hint of the company's scope...
...will strongly protest alleged Soviet violations of existing arms- control treaties. In particular, Shultz was supposed to tell Gromyko that the giant radar station the Soviets are building near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia is "a dagger pointed at the heart of arms control." The U.S. considers the installation to be a step toward development of a nationwide system of antiballistic-missile defenses forbidden by a 1972 treaty. An Administration official elaborated that the U.S. must be assured of Moscow's compliance with past treaties if it is to have any "confidence we can conclude a satisfactory agreement in the future...
...house quivered, windows rattled, and my three dogs started barking." What Sotkajarvi apparently saw in the early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed the Pasvik River on the Soviet-Norwegian border; it headed southwest toward Lake Inari in Finland, where it disappeared...
Pentagon experts acknowledge that withholding details about the launch will probably inconvenience Soviet trackers for only an hour or so as they scramble to position radar ships and sensitive antennas. But they maintain that putting the Soviets to the test is a worthwhile exercise...
...Soviets have a vigorous ABM research program of their own, including work on technologies like laser beams. Their radar at Krasnoyarsk could very well turn out to be part of an ABM network. They are poised on the starting line - and perhaps ready to jump the gun - if the U.S. seems committed to a space race...