Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentina becomes free once again, grand, fraternal and prosperous, the way we all want it to be." Then the genial new leader motored through flag-decked streets to the Presidential Palace. As foreign delegations looked on, the head of the discredited military regime, retired General Reynaldo Bignone, placed the sky-blue-and-white presidential sash over the shoulders of Raúl Alfonsin...
...foot-long nose cone, after homing in by means of eight miniature infrared sensors, does not explode but, propelled by dozens of tiny rocket thrusters, crashes into the enemy satellite at 30,000 m.p.h. "With the F-15 strap-on," says a Pentagon official, "we could clean up the sky in 24 hours." By contrast, each Soviet space bomb, launched by a rocket, could require 24 hours to prepare and move into orbit...
...military operations. When arms-control treaties refer to "national technical means" of verifying compliance, they essentially mean reconnaissance satellites. The U.S. is exceptionally dependent on its military satellites and so has more to lose in a star war. For now, however, the most critical U.S. spies in the sky are, at 22,300 miles, far too high to be jeopardized by current Soviet ASAT weapons...
...with a production of Mozart's The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne. From the moment the curtain rose on Hockney's version of an early Italian Renaissance landscape, complete with a dragon quoted from Uccello, the audience was saturated in color: deep purples of the night sky, the green and pink of formal gardens in Sarastro's domain on the yellow Nilotic sands, blue cataracts and blazing gold art deco sunbursts...
...those friendly Kansas voices asking permission to strike this or that "target." One sensed an eerie beauty in the way the bombs cascaded through the sky, and in the answering orange flames that surged up out of the jungle. There was little bloodshed in Lawrence, Kans. We could ad mire the skill with which the makeup men decorated the actors' faces with red streaks, but we could keep telling ourselves that it was not real blood, and there was not much of it anyway, nothing gory. In Cambodia, blood...