Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Pentagon officials would not say how many American troops were on the ground last week, but the total was probably about 6,000, along with about 60 first- line aircraft: two F-15 fighter squadrons from the U.S. and five AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft. An additional 255 fighters and attack bombers were aboard three U.S. carriers within striking distance of Iraqi forces in Kuwait or Baghdad...
...shooting war broke out, U.S. electronic-warfare planes such as the Air Force's F-4G "Wild Weasel" and the Navy's EA-6B would black out the radar and guidance systems of Iraqi air-defense missiles. "Command, control and communications are their Achilles' heel," says an Air Force officer. In this kind of combat, "they would have to do everything visually." Meanwhile, Saudi and U.S. AWACS planes would spot Iraqi aircraft as soon as they left their runways and direct F-15s and Navy F-14s to intercept them with Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles...
...years. At a joint press conference with De Klerk last week, Mandela charged that police violence against blacks continues -- especially in Natal, where security forces allegedly collaborate with Buthelezi's Inkatha movement -- and complained that key elements of the police force may simply be outside the President's control. Buthelezi again called for a face-to-face meeting with Mandela, a development that many believe would cool off the tensions in Natal. A.N.C. officials refused to respond publicly but said privately that peace talks with the Zulu chief were "not in the cards...
...Jordan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and India and Bangladesh are but a few of the neighboring nations at odds over rivers and lakes. Warns Arnon Sofer, professor of geography at Israel's Haifa University: "Wars over water might erupt in the Middle East in the '90s when states try to control each other's supplies...
Both Brown and the mayor have admitted as much, citing harsh budgetary constraints, the absence of tough federal gun-control laws and the slew of social ills that are at the core of urban warfare. "People know that I'm not responsible for the crime rate," says Dinkins. "They know that crime is directly attributable to drug addiction." The mayor may well be right. But Dinkins' statements strike many New Yorkers as a dismaying confession that government has no remedy for the mayhem that has made toddlers unsafe in their own homes...