Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tripoli: the first of more than 5,500 Army and Marine troops landed in Honduras last week to begin months of deadly serious war games, and 550 Air Force personnel arrived in the Sudan with eight F-15 fighters, two KC-10A tankers and a pair of AWACS radar planes prepared to track Libya's Soviet-made jets bombing Chad (see WORLD). Whatever the arguments about its prospects in one place or another, the new expansiveness is being questioned on practical grounds: U.S. forces could be spread too thin, as the Army's Chief of Staff suggested last...
Secret plans also involve placing large supplies of military equipment in Honduras. Construction reportedly will soon begin on a $ 150 million air and naval base on the country's Atlantic coast. Radar and electronic listening posts will be established at undisclosed sites in Central America. A high national security official was quoted as saying: "We have developed a program for a significant and long-lasting increase in the U.S. military presence in Central America...
That presence in Honduras already includes 57 U.S. Air Force technicians who man a radar station on a mountaintop 23 miles southeast of Tegucigalpa. In operation only since last month, it was ostensibly erected to monitor some 55 U.S. military support flights in and out of Honduras each month. In fact, the unit's radar can watch air traffic above all of Nicaragua and El Salvador...
...democratic party system, so neither of us can afford to take such a great risk that we endanger our administrations. Both the Congress and the Japanese Diet, while maintaining compassion for each other's position, should try to measure the depth of the water and to use radar to detect the existence of icebergs so we will not drown or sink. If we navigate carefully, and if we show strong resolve, no problem is impossible to solve...
...firm came from subcontractors who supply major American defense firms. Many of the sales aroused little attention because the equipment was of a type that also has civilian uses and thus can be sold legally under some interpretations of the vague U.S. trade rules. It included radar, navigational equipment and radio parts. When R.R.C. found that U.S. Customs officials rarely checked crates of this equipment, it began to address them openly to the Iranian air force. It also began to include in the crates such clearly banned items as spare parts for fighter planes, including engines and generators. The process...