Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coastal surveillance exercise" off the Gulf of Fonseca, which borders Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. The mission is to disrupt the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. Pentagon officials stressed that the U.S. ships would remain outside Nicaraguan waters, pro viding only radar assistance to Salvadoran and Honduran naval patrols that attempt to intercept the arms smugglers. Nonetheless, congressional staffers in Washington decried the exercise as "yet another step" toward direct U.S. involvement in a Central American conflict...
...Washington, military intelligence officials vehemently challenged the accusations. Not only were such flights not occurring, they are unnecessary. The U.S. eavesdrops on Nicaragua very effectively by using reconnaissance satellites as well as side-looking radar installed on aircraft that steer clear of Nicaraguan territory. In addition, a Pentagon official declared that AC-130 gunships are "the last thing we'd want to fly over Nicaragua," since the aircraft are less well equipped for reconnaissance missions than other spy planes and because use of the gunships would be a major provocation for the Sandinistas...
...Army engineers last year, during the joint U.S.-Honduran military exercise known as Big Pine II. Another helpful installation for the F.D.N. is a sophisticated training base 90 miles southwest of Tegucigalpa, originally built by the U.S. The contras have also made use of Tiger Island, a hush-hush radar station in the Gulf of Fonseca that is tightly guarded by a contingent of about 150 U.S. Marines...
...first word that Iraq had used the Super Etendards came in a military communiqué boasting that the planes had attacked "two naval targets" near Kharg Island. In fact, a low-flying missile fitting the description of a radar-controlled Exocet reportedly hit a 41,000-ton Greek tanker, Filikon L., that was more than 70 miles away from Kharg Island. The ship, under contract to the Kuwait Petroleum Corp., had just loaded up with fuel at the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi. Damage proved relatively minor, but a second ship hit in the same attack...
...dropped off the political radar screen for ever. "In July 1980, however, he was invited to address the G.O.P. convention and soon found himself very much back on the screen...