Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monitored at least 20 tests of the Soviet ASAT weapon: a 150-ft.-long S59 rocket, which uses radar to home in on its target. It is not very effective at altitudes beyond 1,000 miles. All but 18 of the 100-odd U.S. satellites orbit higher than that, and some key ones are 22,300 miles away (where they remain in geostationary orbit over a single spot on earth). The Soviet rocket would take up to 90 minutes to intercept a target on the weapon's first orbit. Because it uses radar, the system is vulnerable to electronic...
That happy nonchalance may, however, be a luxury for which Costa Rica will have to pay a price. In the past two years the country has become a home for the 3,500 anti-Sandinista contras of the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE) and, in the process, a target for Nicaraguan reprisals. Just three months ago, after ARDE Chief Eden Pastora Gomez used his Costa Rican base to launch a 36-hour attack on the Nicaraguan port town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua struck back by firing 60 rockets at the Costa Rican border settlement of Poco Sol. Not long...
Abdullah, 46, is the leader of the Muslim-oriented National Conference Party. He became a leading target for Mrs. Gandhi's enmity in June 1983, when he won 46 of 76 state assembly seats in fiercely contested local elections; the Congress (I) Party won only 26. During the campaign Abdullah forged an alliance with Mirwaiz
Along with his black-and-blue humor, the author is unsparingly accurate about the R.A.F. 's highly inflated claims of shoot-downs and its antiquated early tactics. But he never loses admiration for the sacrificial pilot, and his sentiments are dead on target: midway between Catch 22 and The Winds of War. A natural for a PBS miniseries, Piece of Cake could run on Masterpiece Theater just as easy...
...developing nations have gone deeper into debt in recent years, the IMF has become a major target of their hostility. They covet its money, but fear the consequences of borrowing it. Argentina, for example, desperately needs $2.1 billion in IMF credits. But in return for the money, the fund insists on a range of tightfisted economic policies that could shatter the country's brittle new democracy. Two weeks ago, Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín bypassed fund negotiators and appealed directly to IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosière for more lenient terms. Yet neither Alfons...