Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would place a $90 million, high-powered radar station so close to an airport that it has to be shut down every time a plane lands? Someone, it turns out, who should know better: the U.S. Air Force Space Command. The problem exists at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, where a giant early- warning radar searches for missiles launched from submarines. But the apparatus is only 1.5 miles from the approach end of a runway, and Air Force electronic engineers fear that its emissions could trigger electromagnetic explosive devices on many military aircraft. Those devices are used mainly...
Senior Tamar R. Charney, program director of the school's student radio station, said most students seem unconcerned about the proposal. "I've never heard any objection to it," she said...
...most widely reported incident last spring, a non-student disk jockey was banned from the student-run radio station after he played "Run, Nigger, Run" during a series on old Bluegrass and Country & Western songs, Charney said...
Charney, who was not involved with the station at the time, said she viewed the incident as careless rather than racist. She said the disk jockey should have told listeners that no insult was intended by the song. She added that "the song does have its artistic merit...
...Moscow Station, investigative reporter Ronald Kessler depicts an incredible lack of security at the U.S. embassy. Seductive KGB women used their embassy jobs to lure lonely Marines into espionage. But, says Kessler, the Navy bungled its probe, only one Marine was convicted of spying, and embarrassed U.S. agencies tried to play down the damage. In fact, he claims, there is solid evidence that Soviet agents had been admitted to the inner code rooms and stole some of America's most sensitive secrets...