Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closely monitored for national security reasons. Since last January, 77 Soviet planes have entered the Atlantic Coast ADIZ while on nonstop flights from the U.S.S.R. to Cuba. Their aim has been to pick up U.S. radar frequencies and to record how long it takes for U.S. fighters to respond. U.S. reconnaissance planes have done the same thing near the U.S.S.R. border and have triggered the firing of more than 900 Soviet ground-to-air missiles, so far without...
...sure to usher in a period of instability. Shamir will not find it easy to fill the void left by the indomitable Begin, who could make peace with Egypt and wage war in Lebanon. But Begin's successor will probably be a transitional leader, as unlikely to respond to bold initiatives as to launch them. That will make it all the more difficult for him to sort out Begin's troubled, and troublesome, legacy. -By John Kohan. Reportedby Harry Kelly and Robert Slater/Jerusalem
...Playing without his wizardly accompanist and musical inspiration, David Lindley, who split off on his own 2½ years ago, Browne has cooked up a rock-solid band, so cohesive that it has become part of his creative process. "I started to take unfinished songs to the band and respond as a writer to their suggestions, Browne says. "Your instrument is actually the medium with which you're going to perform the songs. The band is now my instrument...
There are no standard responses to an attack. Many self-defense specialists advise acting aggressively early in the assault, yelling or bending his pinkie finger back. But there is no way of knowing how a given attacker will respond. In Groth's group, one rapist said he "would let them go as soon as they started to cry." Another said he stabbed a woman who became assertive...
...critics at home. In his first formal statement on France's involvement in Chad, he told the newspaper Le Monde that French troops were in Chad only as "instructors" who would provide "logistical support" and exercise a "dissuasive role." Mitterrand added that if threatened, French troops would "respond and, to defend themselves better, not limit their reply to a defensive one." Implicit was a warning that a Libyan push south from the oasis of Faya-Largeau, which was captured by a joint Libyan and rebel force in early August, would produce a military showdown with France...