Word: radars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Call it luck. Call it ESP. Call it residual effects from Quadlines. I have a radar for corned beef...
...trying to plug the holes on the Mexican border with radar balloons, aircraft equipped with infrared sensors and ground-implanted motion sensors. But vast stretches of badlands are not constantly under guard. The traffickers, in turn, have proved endlessly inventive. On May 17, Customs agents discovered a 250-ft.-long, 5-ft.-wide concrete-and-steel reinforced tunnel that ran 35 ft. under the border, between a construction-supply warehouse in Douglas, Ariz., and a house in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Agents figure virtually all of Arizona's cocaine supply moved for a time via the passage...
...story from the government side, interviewing officials in Washington and heading for the Mexican border. There she flew with U.S. Customs officers as they patrolled smuggling routes and staged mock intercepts. They scouted the "slots," mountain passes where airborne smugglers fly only feet above the ground to evade radar. "Drug pilots are all a little crazy," she says. "They carry extra fuel bladders, which means they're flying a bomb. At 50 ft., graze a hill and it's all over...
Costa Rica's remote airstrips, meanwhile, are increasingly being used for plane-refueling stops, prompting plans to build a $20 million U.S.-funded radar station on the country's Pacific Coast. And in Panama the effort to shut down money-laundering operations has met with limited success. American- installed President Guillermo Endara is resisting U.S. pressure to lift some bank secrecy laws for fear of damaging the industry...
...substances, used in door panels and floors, account for about 14% of a typical airplane's weight, in contrast to 2% ten years ago. Stealth bombers and fighter jets are wrapped in skins of composite nonmetallic materials that help make the planes more difficult to detect with radar...