Word: radars
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...might call the flip side of American postwar supremacy. Everyone knows that after 1945 the center of world art moved to New York. Paris no longer "mattered" much. Once this dogma took hold, Americans lost interest in most new European art; the New York School pushed it off the radar screen, and it apparently lost the mandate of art history. The new, swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Lager, Miro-but who was going to pay much attention to insipid French abstractionists like Hans Hartung...
...independence or willeven fight for it. Many nations, or parts of themat least, are struggling against moderncivilization or its main proponents for the rightto worship their ancient gods and obey the ancientdivine injunctions. They carry on their struggleusing weapons provided by the very civilizationsthey oppose. They employ radar, computers, lasers,never gases and perhaps, in the future, evennuclear weapons--all products of the world theychallenge--to help defend their ancient heritageagainst the erosions of modern civilization. Incontrast with these technological inventions,other products of their civilization--likedemocracy or the idea of human rights--are notaccepted in many places...
...Force Captain Jim Wang in last year's friendly fire attack on two U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq. The verdict means that no one has been held criminally responsible for the deaths of 26 people. Wang, whomTIME's Mark Thompsondescribes as "a bit player" in the tragedy, was the radar officer in charge of monitoring the no-fly zone over northern Iraq when two F-15 fighter pilots mistakenly downed the Black Hawk helicopters. No other officer was tried in the April 14, 1994 shootdown. "Plainly the Air Force was hoping that a conviction for Wang would translate into shutting...
...none was needed-as well as two Navy EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare planes, two Marine F/A-18D Hornets to provide air cover, and a pair of tank-killing Air Force A-10 Warthogs. The entire aerial armada of roughly 40 planes was choreographed from above by a nato awacs radar plane. "We had the whole shooting match up there," said Smith...
...letter. They need "a little image-repair job," he said. So Dole's embrace of the N.R.A.'s "apology" as "the right thing" to have done is hardly surprising. "We're where the N.R.A. itself is right now," concedes a Dole adviser. "The sooner this mess is off the radar screen, the sooner they can go back to raising money and we can get on with running for President...