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Your Los Angeles: Do you believe in UFOs?
Brand X"Without a doubt, the weirdest L.A. experience I've had was the supposed UFO sighting in the late '90s. I was in Mar Vista at my friend's place when the sky seemed strange. We went outside when a kid on a bike came racing toward us yelling, "Do you see... -
Expand or scrap missile ban
Twenty years ago this December, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the only treaty in history that eliminated an entire class of weapons -- shorter- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The treaty commonly referred to as...Tags: Mikhail S Gorbachev, Civil Unrest, Barack Obama, Colleges and Universities, Weaponry
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Taking friendly fire to new heights
Last night, three Navy warships waited in the Pacific for orders to shoot down a crippled U.S. spy satellite, using weapons designed for missile defense. The Bush administration said the goal was to prevent the satellite's 1,000 gallons of toxic fuel from...Tags: Weaponry, Japan, China, White House, Defense
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Chinese missile strikes satellite
Times Staff WriterThe Chinese military shot down one of its own aging satellites with a ground-based ballistic missile last week, demonstrating a new technological capability at a time of growing Bush administration concern over Beijing's military modernization and its...Tags: National Government, Trips and Vacations, China, John Johnson, Travel
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Sputnik's warning
Few Americans have ever heard of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. But he is the reason that NASA was created and that we went to the moon. It is because of this anonymous Russian that we have federally backed college loans in this country and National Football...Tags: NASA, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Football, Weaponry, National Football League
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Desert shares its atomic secrets
Times Staff WriterThere's a traffic jam out here in the middle of nowhere, a long line of cars stretching up a two-lane desert road and on over the crest of a low hill. At the head of the line, several uniformed men with guns guard a closed arm gate, and they have us...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, John Donne, Trips and Vacations, Albuquerque
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'Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets' by Barry Siegel
IN LEGAL circles these days, it is much in vogue to praise the doctrine of stare decisis -- a fancy Latin term for giving great deference to past court decisions rather than rethinking legal principles anew. This idea feels quite benign. What could be...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, National Government, Witnesses, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Obama's missile gap
Russia didn't waste any time in putting President-elect Barack Obama on notice. A day after the election, President Dmitry Medvedev renewed Russian warnings that he would base short-range Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, on the border of Poland, if the...Tags: Sam Nunn, Barack Obama, Weaponry, Democratic Party, Economic Sanctions
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ARCHIVE: U.S. Launches Attack
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersCHARIKAR, Afghanistan -- The United States launched its retaliation against terrorism Sunday, striking at the heart of Osama bin Laden's adopted nation and his Taliban supporters with a thundering attack of bombs from the air and missiles from the sea....Tags: Aircraft Carriers, National Government, U.S. Navy, Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Don't Open the Door to Russia Yet
Last June, when President Bush invited Russian President Vladimir V. Putin to visit his ranch in Crawford, Texas, it was almost certain that nuclear weapons would be the summit's centerpiece. Since then, Sept. 11 has reshaped the United States' view of...Tags: Weaponry, U.S. Military, Treaties, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense
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Newest U.S. Weapons Built to Swiftly Find and Destroy
Times Staff WriterEven before terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, the Pentagon and the defense industry were gearing up for a new kind of warfare taking shape in Afghanistan and elsewhere, designing spy equipment and weapons that could pinpoint moving targets and knock them...Tags: NASA, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Entertainment, Afghanistan, Aerospace Manufacturing
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U.S. Attacks Iraq
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe United States launched a thundering bomb and missile attack on Baghdad at dawn today, targeting senior government leaders in what could become all-out war to drive Saddam Hussein from power and disarm Iraq. Air raid sirens blared, and yellow-and-...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Heads of State, National Government, Kuwait, Baghdad (Iraq)
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