Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even allowing for some exaggeration, it was plain that the engagement was a disaster for Iraq. Dozens of burned-out Soviet-built tanks and hundreds of armored vehicles Uttered the flatlands, many mired in sand softened by March rains. A charred radar dish was draped with a poster of Khomeini and banners that proclaimed GOD is GREAT! Fired by religious fervor and a belief in the rightness of their cause, Iranian soldiers have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like...
Even some of Reagan's most platitudinous phrases were carefully tailored to reassure critics on specific points. Jewish leaders last fall complained that when they opposed the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, the Administration seemed to be implying that they were putting Israel's interests ahead of America's. So Reagan asserted that "every citizens' group is guaranteed the right to speak out, and must be encouraged to do so without fear of reprisal or defamation. The language of hate, the obscenity of anti-Semitism and racism must have no part...
...leaders could be sure that the U.S. would leave those missiles in the ground once it was certain that Soviet warheads were on their way. The Kremlin leaders would have to reckon with the possibility that during the 30 minutes' warning that the U.S. President would have from satellites, radar and other means, he would decide to shoot the works...
...Soviets were to strike first. The system also has numerous and sophisticated built-in safeguards that make the danger of accidental war quite remote. True, there have been false alerts, and Ground Zero's Roger Molander recalls a bizarre incident in the mid-1960s when a newly installed radar warning system mistook the rising of the moon for a massive Soviet missile attack. Still, the fear that a faulty computer chip, a flock of geese or a mad lieutenant could push a crisis beyond the point of no return has been exaggerated...
...reporting the Soviet results in Houston, Valery Barsukov, director of the Soviet Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, made a pointed pitch for continued cooperation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. (The U.S. provided radar maps of the Venus surface and helped the Soviets select the landing sites.) In 1985 another pair of Soviet probes will be dropped into the Venusian atmosphere while their mother ship hurtles on toward a rendezvous with Halley's comet. The U.S., meanwhile, is passing up the chance to intercept that rare heavenly visitor, and its plans for another visit to Venus remain...