Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Mao Tse-tung wound up his secret talks with Khrushchev in Peking, Radio Peking formally proclaimed that Quemoy-Matsu would be assaulted as a prelude to an attack against Formosa. U.S. and Chinese Nationalist intelligence officers measured known strengths. Red China's army numbered a vast 2,500,000 men-200,000 in action stations facing the Formosa Strait-and its air force of 400 tactical bombers and 1,600 jet fighters was backed up by the 2,300 planes of the U.S.S.R.'s Far East command. The Chinese Nationalists could muster only 400,000 troops-including...
...could be no support in the U.S. for helping Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek. But as the U.S. position held firm, and as the Red China military bogged down, the Communists shifted to a new line. The Russians said they had been misunderstood, would never enter a "civil war." Peking radio called no more for "liberation" of Formosa and the offshore islands by force: instead it talked of resolving differences between "Chinese brothers" by discussions and amalgamation...
...brothers," cried Cairo's Voice of the Arabs last week, "on the right there is imperialism, and on your left is also imperialism. You don't want to replace one camp with any other except the camp of Arabism." And Radio Damascus chimed in "The left may have become more dangerous...
Like other Atlases, this one was guided by a wondrously sophisticated ground computer. Before blastoff, the Atlas' internal guidance mechanism was instructed to follow a programed course. As it rose, the Atlas reported by radio on how it was doing. Digesting this information almost instantly, the ground computer radioed back to the Atlas the proper corrections for making its actual course conform to the programed one. These course corrections were made by controllable vernier rockets and slight changes of the direction in the thrust of the main engine. When the Atlas had climbed above nearly all of the atmosphere...
...instruments weigh an estimated 100 lbs. each, are capable of receiving, recording, and rebroadcasting messages on signal from the ground. President Eisenhower's voice, recorded on tape ahead of time, was sent up in the instrument package. After the Atlas made twelve trips around the earth, a radio station at Cape Canaveral gave it a coded signal that triggered one of its transmitters. Down from space came the President's message, scratchy but intelligible...