Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite all the help the Frente was getting. "They want to know everything," complained one Frente leader. "Suppose you ask for 100 rifles. They want to know to whom, what for, where they will be used-in triplicate." Exiles also say that they were subjected to lie-detector tests before going to camps (sample question: Have you had homosexual relations?) and were threatened with deportation or detention camps at McAllen, Texas, if they got out of line. They say that in the final stages, the Pentagon moved in to take direct control of the operation. The Frente representative was removed...
...errors, and the commanders got around the language barrier by carrying out maneuvers via the International General Signal Book. As the Odax pulled every trick in the submariner's book, the South Americans learned the newest ship-maneuvering techniques, how to handle the most modern MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector) and sonar gear to track, corner and kill the sub. Sonar operators even learned how to tell the type of sub by the quality of its "ping...
...problem still remaining is to prove that no natural phenomenon will look like a space test to Westervelt's detectors. The model at Los Alamos has already passed one test: it is not fooled by lightning. Next month it will be moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to see whether it cries a false bomb scare when a strong aurora shines in the night sky. Only if it can distinguish a nuclear explosion from all natural events will the detector be recommended for international test watching...
...discovered that last winter the two buddies made a trip to Mexico and took the trouble to hide their travels from their superiors. Upon re-examining the record of a routine lie-detector test, the FBI found signs that Mitchell was something less than emotionally robust. Agents also discovered that he had been consult ing a private psychiatrist, presumably out of concern for homosexual tendencies...
...detector started work last fall, and on Dec. 3 Irma Argandona, a student from Bolivia, noted by scanning the raw data that something unusual had happened at nine minutes after midnight...