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Even after the mighty 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope revealed no evidence at all of networks of straight lines or other manifestations of intelligent life on Mars, the fascination continued. Fredric Brown's novel Martians, Go Home, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a...
At first, it seemed like a triumph of high technology. Supersophisticated radar aboard the U.S.S. Vincennes picked up the airplane almost as soon as it took off from the Iranian airport of Bandar Abbas, on the shores of the Persian Gulf. Within moments the radar received enough information about altitude...
To be sure, that is not the only consideration: simple inattention on both sides also figures into the tragedy. On the American side, the military claims that it does not systematically monitor civilian air traffic over the gulf. In fact, a Pentagon official told TIME that the Navy had not...
The trouble is that Rogers and his crew had no time to reflect on such considerations. A ship nowadays can easily be sunk by a missile delivered from a plane that no one on board ever sees. In the open ocean, a possibly hostile plane can be tracked over hundreds...
Amid conflicting reports about whether Iranrecovered the flight recorder from the downed A300Airbus, the White House said anew that Capt. WillC. Rogers III, commander of the USS Vincennes,took "justifiable defensive actions" to protecthimself against feared attack by an Iranian F-14warplane.