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While the frigate dawdled along, its search radar sweeping the skies in a 225-mile radius, other American military eyes were also watching the gulf. Earlier, an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) surveillance plane had taken off from its base in Saudi Arabia, which operated the electronics-laden Boeing 707 jointly with the U.S. On radar, the combined U.S.-Saudi crew detected a single Iraqi Mirage F-1 aircraft as it lifted off from the Shaibah military airport ten miles southwest of Basra at around 8 p.m. Heading southeast along Saudi Arabia's coast as Iraqi planes often...
...shooting a Texas highway patrolman, Deputy Marshal Ed Stubbs used the Scorecard system to predict where Snell was heading. A deputy sheriff in Montana said that he had seen someone matching Snell's description driving through town with two other men. Stubbs went to a map, drew a radius around the spot and figured the men had to be heading for Casper, Wyo., or Rapid City, S. Dak. He put out leads to law officers in the area, who started watching the roads. Reported sightings were relayed to Stubbs, who used the computer system to corroborate or discount them. Within...
...innovative shelters for some of San Francisco's estimated 5,000 to 10,000 homeless people. MacDonald claims the units would cost only about $800 apiece to build, and he has already identified spots for up to 500 of them on public land within a five-block radius of his office. City hall is dubious, naturally -- the Sleepers have no plumbing, and they are possible fire hazards -- but so far the two shelters are a hit. They have been occupied every night since MacDonald built them last month...
Some scientists, particularly those opposed to the SSC for other reasons, have expressed concern that the rapid developments in superconductivity could warrant a redesign of the accelerator. "It might be possible to shrink the radius down to ten miles," says Cornell Physicist James Krumhansl, president- elect of the American Physical Society. "What I say is, let's put the matter into one more year of research and development and review it next year...
...Citizens Within a 10-Mile Radius," a groupworking on maintaining safety at Seabrook, will"coordinate different groups in the area and getthem energized" in order to prevent the NRCproposal from being passed, said member PeterHaack...