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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military interception capabilities are more effective at sea than in the air. One reason: a smuggling vessel can be tracked for a day or more, providing ample time for the Navy to reach, stop and inspect it. But some border-hopping Cessnas can fly to their unloading airstrips and slip out of the U.S. again in half an hour. Even if Air Force radar planes such as the AWACS or E-2C surveillance craft spot the intruders, there is not much time to alert lawmen on the ground, get them to the strip and make arrests before the drug traffickers...
Financially, the industry has never been healthier. Cable now reaches 51% of U.S. television homes, and its programming attracts an average 20% of the viewing audience. That compares with a reach of 37% and an audience share of 11% five years ago. The industry's operating profits last year were a rosy $279.4 million, up from a $54 million loss in 1983. Cable systems are being bought and sold for rapidly escalating prices. And advertising revenue in 1987 exceeded $1.1 billion, in contrast to $380 million in 1983. Cable is one of the major competitors cutting into the ratings...
...quite yet. The nervous callers apparently mistook the gentler European honeybees for the aggressive killer bees, which U.S. officials say have proceeded no farther northward than central Mexico. But the Texans' growing unease is understandable: unless the bees are headed off or at least slowed down, they may reach the Texas border as early as next year. Mexican and American scientists are doing their level best to keep that from occurring. Near the narrowest part of southern Mexico, where the rugged Sierra Madre sweeps close to the coast, they have prepared a stand against the marauders, a kind of apiarian...
Right now the migrating bees have begun to reach the Pacific Coast killing fields, where hives baited with pheromones, or sexual scents, await them. Once the insects are enticed inside, plastic bags will be pulled tight over the hives to suffocate them. To prevent the bees from taking over the working hives of the more docile European honeybee, all European queen bees in the area are being marked with a bright spot of acrylic paint. Their hives will be checked every month for the presence of Africanized queens...
...Alaskan Air Command intercepted only ten to 15 Soviet scout flights annually, but already this year U.S. F-15s have confronted 20 Bears. Each Soviet bomber is armed with as many as ten cruise missiles with a range of 1,500 miles; from Alaskan airspace, these weapons could reach U.S. missile sites in the Dakotas and Montana...