Word: shagan
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...Treaty -- still unapproved because of Senate doubts about verification -- the Soviets permitted American teams to monitor an underground test in Soviet Central Asia. In recent weeks Moscow has allowed Americans to inspect cruise missiles aboard a cruiser in the Black Sea and sanctioned a visit to the Sary Shagan complex, which the Pentagon had claimed, erroneously, housed an antisatellite laser...
...rile the Kremlin, American officials last week admitted that for the past year the U.S. and China have run an electronic listening post in the Tian Shan mountains of western China's Xinjiang province. The station monitors missile tests conducted at Soviet bases in Leninsk and Sary-Shagan, in Kazakhstan. Though U.S. technicians installed the equipment and trained the Chinese to run the station, they now visit the site only occasionally to check on maintenance-and, presumably, pick up data...
...FORMULA Directed by John Avildsen Screenplay by Steve Shagan...
Moscow's prowess in beam weapons was confirmed nearly a year ago when U.S. intelligence noticed that the Soviets had begun building a large HEL, or possibly a prototype CPB generator, at Sary-Shagan, a weapons testing area near the Chinese border. The first authoritative press account of Soviet progress in beam weapons was put together by two editors of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Clarence Robinson Jr. and Philip Klass. They pointed out that at Sary-Shagan the Soviets are apparently using Pavlovski generators, highly advanced devices that convert the energy released by controlled blasts of explosives directly into...