Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspections agreed to by President Kennedy and Khrushchev, the U.S. continued regular U-2 overflights to make certain that no new missiles were sneaked back in. Though Castro raged at the flights, there was nothing he could do about it so long as his Soviet part ners controlled the SAM II antiaircraft rockets capable of bringing down...
...Russians have indeed removed all their nuclear ballistic missiles. But the Russians have left behind an impressive array of "defensive" hardware: battalions of tanks, hundreds of mobile nonnuclear FROGs (free-rocket-overground) with a 30-mile range, about 60 supersonic MIG-21 jet fighters and more than 100 antiaircraft SAM rockets. Ready to step in at the 25 SAM sites around the island are Cuban crews, who have had more than a year of training under Soviet instructors. There is some evidence that the Russians are pulling out their most sophisticated radar tracking systems, leaving the Cubans with second-rate...
...would continue. "It is essential that we maintain surveillance and know whether any missiles are being shipped into Cuba," he said. Any interference, he added, would be "a very serious action." In the 1962 crisis, one specific contingency plan was a lightning air strike to take out all 25 SAM installations simultaneously. The U.S. has kept a force of some 500 jet fighter bombers deployed at Southern bases within easy range of Cuba...
...than all the Red Sox games strung end to endless. Traffic is banished from streets along the route, and 250,000 spectators line the curbs five deep in spots. Newspapers run extras, and TV and radio carry the scene into thousands of Boston homes. Why not? Where else could Sam Oellet, a 59-year-old janitor from Augusta, Me., put on his long-johns and run in the same race with a barefoot 17-year-old? And where else could a fat man in a sweatshirt with MCDONALD'S HAMBURGERS written across the front swap liniment with an Olympic...
...attack is led by junior Tino O'Brien, one of the leading scorers in the league, and captain Jim Haws. The third man is either Sam Pierson, a 5 ft. 5 in. speedster, or husky Phil Goldfarb...