Word: inspecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasingly complicated aircraft. The Boeing 747, biggest of them all, contains 4.5 million removable parts and 135 miles of electrical wiring. Mechanics have branched into specialties, complete with nicknames: "knuckledraggers" take care of hydraulic gear and bodywork, and "twidgets" handle sensitive avionics and other electrical gear. Mechanics now inspect as many parts as possible without removing them, and even have adapted a medical device used for colon examinations as an inspection tool...
...principal stumbling blocks to verification of the treaty dealt with U.S. demands to inspect Soviet missile containers big enough to hold only a stage of a rocket and the issue off how much access U.S. inspectors will have to Soviet missile plants and bases...
...senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the main sticking point was a Soviet demand to inspect Pershing 1-A missiles stored in the United States...
...They can't inspect the P1-As, but we told them where they were and how many," the official said...
...months ago, and it was disclosed publicly in the March 18 Washington Post. Initially taken by surprise, the U.S. has obtained assurances from King Fahd, via a letter to Ronald Reagan, that the warheads on the surface-to-surface missiles are not nuclear. The U.S. has nonetheless asked to inspect the missiles, which have an estimated range of around 1,600 miles. Riyadh has so far refused permission...