Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration speak with one voice on foreign policy issues, an effort that has sometimes brought him into collision with Weinberger, National Security Adviser Richard Allen and occasionally people in his own department. Neumann had earlier displeased Haig by pushing for the U.S. to sell Saudi Arabia five sophisticated AWACS radar and command center planes, while Haig saw no reason to rush the deal. To make matters worse, when Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in June, Neumann complained that U.S. reaction had been excessively mild...
...given the past history of Pentagon cost overruns and the debatable forecasting record of economists. The ballooning has already begun. The anticipated cost of a new infantry fighting vehicle for the Army has doubled from $900,000 to $1.8 million each; the expected price of SOTAS, a helicopter-borne radar system designed to spy out troop movements far behind enemy lines, more than tripled from $8.7 million to $28 million per unit. Many Congressmen fear that unless military outlays are controlled by some strictly enforced set of priorities, they will soar far beyond the projected $1.5 trillion. What...
...posse comitatus (literally "power of the county") statutes that bar military involvement in civilian law enforcement. The Senate and House are expected to agree on a bill that will create a new and potent drug-fighting arsenal, including the use of military spy planes, satellite surveillance and sophisticated radar equipment. The House version would even give the Navy the right to board and seize drug-laden vessels outside U.S. territorial waters...
...last week after six years of not-so-casually observing him, was an undercover operative for the Polish intelligence service. According to a court affidavit filed by the bureau, he had paid Bell about $110,000 over the past three years to photograph highly classified documents detailing Hughes Aircraft radar and weapons systems. The film was passed to Polish agents and ultimately, it is believed, to the Soviet Union...
Gradually, Bell later confessed, his position became more compromised, and he was required to record more highly classified plans of advanced radar and weapons systems. Bell's involvement grew deeper still in late 1979, when Zacharski told him he would have to start delivering the film directly to Polish agents overseas. During the next year and a half, Bell made three trips to Austria and Switzerland, where Polish agents would identify themselves to him with the code phrase, "Aren't you a friend of Marian...