Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech by calling on the Soviets to honor international agree ments. As evidence, the Administration planned to send Congress a report this week listing alleged treaty violations. The document accuses the Soviet Union of ignoring prohibitions on the use of chemical and biological weapons. It also cites a radar facility and a new missiles system that appear to violate arms control agreements. A White House aide insisted that there was nothing contradictory about the accusatory report and the conciliatory speech. Said he: "The Soviets will still lie and cheat-but we won't be announcing it with a megaphone...
...series Blue Thunder (derived from the movie of the same title) features a mean, blackbottle fly of a police chopper that is essentially an aerial machine gun equipped with supersnooping devices. Next week CBS launches Airwolf, about a supersonic CIA attack helicopter that is invisible to radar. One of its pilots, Ernest Borgnine, decorously refers to it as "she," as if it were a more temperamental version of the flying...
...robot serves its three private-eye associates as a mobile data bank and uses its sensitive radar to warn them of approaching danger (usually a helicopter...
Reagan may send this report to Congress in January. It will mention that the Soviets are operating a large radar base in Siberia that the U.S. suspects will be used to guide the kind of antiballistic missiles that have been banned under the SALT I-ABM treaty and will question Moscow's compliance with important parts of SALT II as well. Yet the Soviets would have a point in asking what right the U.S. has to complain about violations of SALT II, a treaty it has refused to ratify. If the arms-control agreements start to erode, all restraints...
...disaster has called attention to what many airline pilots regard as a critical safety deficiency at the airport. Although Madrid handles some 11 million passengers annually, it lacks the ground control radar system common at other major airports. The radar, which allows controllers to keep track of plane movements on the Tarmac even in zero visibility, might have averted last week's tragedy...