Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Syrian radar, then determining which enemy threat was the most immediate. If a jet-propelled SA-6 were fired, traveling toward the Israeli plane at 2,000 m.p.h., the jet's ECM would have singled it out for intense electronic jamming, trying to overcome the SAM'S own antijamming system to send the missile veering off course. If one of the Syrian MiG-21s and MiG-23s had fired a Soviet Atoll missile at an Israeli attacker, the same ECM beaming might have "spoofed" the weapon and forced it harmlessly off course...
...made a flourish of presenting Sugar Ray Robinson the first gloves he ever wore at Madison Square Garden; Robinson was moved to tears, until both gloves turned out to be righthanded. "Confusion is a promoter's plight and his ally," says King, who is co-promoting the show with Sam Glass and Tiffany Promotions from Cooney's side. "There's something you should know about boxing: lying is commonplace...
...question at a presidential press'conference, but each network wants to display its White House correspondent posing a question-and avoid showing questioners from the other networks. Roone Arledge, president of ABC News, is amused when the competition feels obliged to show the President answering ABC'S Sam Donaldson, and does so with "sound bites" of incomplete sentences, so that the viewer doesn't hear Ronald Reagan familiarly addressing "Sam." Donaldson knows how to ask the burr-edged question that can't be ignored...
...Reagan once said, "It's O.K., we all know Sam's irrepressible." He may be the toughest on-the-air questioner now that the defending champions, Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters, have eased up a little. Walters can still hurl a sugar-tipped dart, but has taken to asking Nancy Reagan what kind of tree she would be, if she were a tree...
...into popular hardbacks. His fiction to date: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, a spoof of the Mafia; World Without End, Amen, the travels of a New York Irish policeman to warring Northern Ireland; and .44 (written with Dick Schaap), a novelized exploitation of the Son of Sam murders...