1.   Beijing is bridling at the prospect that Bush could decide, within two weeks, to begin selling to Taiwan warships equipped with advanced combat radar systems.

2.   Competitors in Italy and Britain were both offering advanced airborne radar systems to Beijing.

3.   First, they were upset at Israeli plans, over U.S. objections, to sell an advanced radar plane to China.

4.   He noted that the advanced radar of the kind that might be built on Shemya was working well so far.

5.   Separately, Clinton apparently won a pledge from Barak to not go ahead immediately with the proposed sale of advanced airborne radar equipment to China.

6.   Several of those components would also require new, advanced radars on the ground or at sea and sensors in space.

7.   Some advanced radars, including two in Texas, are in limited use now and already have produced significant results predicting tornadoes and other storms.

8.   The advanced radar system was on its way from a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration facility in New York.

9.   The report said China stole U.S. nuclear warhead designs, advanced radar know-how and missile-guidance-system-blueprints.

10.   Then there is the original ground-based defense, involving interceptors launched from Alaska or North Dakota, advanced radars and sensors in space.