Newsfront
October, 1988
$$--Up, Up and AwayThe Government's latest drug-smuggling detector, a blimplike balloon, looms 10,000 feet over the Arizona horizon and costs taxpayers $18,000,000. Its purpose is to track airplanes near the Mexican border that evade regular radar by flying low. It has thus jar apprehended two drug-carrying planes.The Air Force, using $179,000,000 AWACS surveillance planes for the same purpose, caught two drug smugglers in 1987 and none in the first three months of 1988. The planes cost $50,000,...
