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Counterfeit armaments can easily fool pilots zipping overhead who may not have time to analyze infrared images of their targets, which reveal the wooden husks below for what they are. Except, that is, when the decoys include heaters to simulate the infrared signature of, say, a tank engine, and perhaps crude transmitters to produce radar signals. A deluxe imitation tank from M.V.M. runs about $23,000, a lot cheaper than the real thing, which can cost $1 million or more...
...time, the Sea Island terminal spill could be compounded by a flood of oil from a major refinery, either as the result of a U.S. attack or a decision by Iraq to open the faucets. A single refinery tank can hold millions of gallons -- enough to smear large stretches of the sebkha, the flat coastal terrain where Kuwaiti refineries are located...
...while the world's eyes have been riveted on the raging conflict in the Middle East, another chilling image has gone nearly unnoticed. It is the image of a mangled leg jutting out from the underside of a Soviet tank. It is the image of an iron fist discarding its velvet glove. It is an image we should not ignore...
...global responsibilities are greatly reduced now," says Joshua. M. Epstein, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C. think-tank. "Europe used to be 60 percent of our defense spending. By comparison to the Warsaw Pact, Iraq is not that...
Some balance nevertheless crept in from more liberal radio stations and newspapers. Komsomolskaya Pravda carried a front-page picture of a body under a tank and the question "Tbilisi, Baku, Vilnius, what next?" Under the headline BLOODY SUNDAY, Moscow News published a statement from 30 well-known intellectuals, including two of Gorbachev's most important former economic advisers, labeling events in Lithuania "a crime...