Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soju, the local gin, he became voluble but also contradictory. According to his latest account, Lee was a member of the crew of the sub, which left North Korean waters on Sept. 14 with seven infiltrators and 19 crew. Their mission, he says, was to spy on an airport, radar installations and civilian preparedness. On Sept. 15 they put three men ashore to observe the Kangnung airport while the sub cruised back and forth along the coastline. They picked up the three spies last Tuesday and were intending to head for home when the sub ran aground on the reef...
...Iraqi surface-to-air defense missiles." The move came in response to an Iraqi missile launched at a U.S. F-16 fighter jet patrolling northern Iraq. U.S. forces were unable to locate the battery to return fire when the Iraqis apparently turned their radar off seconds after firing the missile. In another tweaking of the U.S., Iraqi aircraft also violated the new, expanded no-fly zone in southern Iraq. "The U.S. will take some action, the question is when and how strong," Thompson says. "The good thing about this attack from the U.S. standpoint is it gives the Pentagon...
Those clues are being arduously analyzed by experts at the NTSB and the FBI. One cluster of NTSB engineers is tracking the trajectories of pieces of wreckage from where they landed to where they began to fall. This is done with computers that factor in radar records, wind direction and speed, and other data. The studies will help experts determine the sequence of catastrophic events that led to the plane's destruction. Also, the sharp sound at the end of the cockpit voice recording is being analyzed in minuscule detail, with attention to the different speeds at which the vibrations...
...cash withdrawals drawn from the Clinton gubernatorial campaign coffers. White House deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in that alleged conspiracy. News of the verdict had the Clinton camp predicting that the Whitewater scandal would fade from the election-year radar screens. "It takes one more issue off the table for Republicans who think this is an important matter," said spokesman Joe Lockhart. Maybe, maybe not. Within the deadlocked counts against Branscum and Hill, there are a few potential land mines remaining, including charges of conspiring to direct more bank funds to Clinton...
...People now as a rule don't remember how chancy the thing was," Purcell says. "The war in the Atlantic was very nearly lost. The submarines were sinking American freighter ships by the dozens, I mean literally. It was radar that came along, and radar used on the ships finally took care of the submarine menace...