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From a super-secret missile test base at Tyuratam, near the Aral Sea, a Soviet SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile roars from its silo, hurtling its ten warheads 5,000 miles toward a target area in the western Pacific. The heat of the rocket's blast triggers infrared sensors aboard a U.S. spy satellite 22,000 miles above Tyuratam. Within seconds, other U.S. facilities are alerted and computer-run electronic equipment on land, planes and ships locks onto the SS-18, monitoring its flight and performance...
From a launch site deep in Kazakhstan near the Aral Sea, two giant Soviet rockets streaked 4,500 miles to a target area some 850 miles northwest of Midway in the Pacific late last month. It was Russia's first full-range test of its SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missile. Like the U.S. Minuteman III, it carries multiple nuclear warheads aimed at separate targets. To U.S. military strategists in the Pentagon, the successful Soviet firings were fresh confirmation that for all the genuine gains of detente, the arms race between the world's premier superpowers is still very much alive...
Russia has its problems with water too. Dams and irrigation networks on the rivers feeding the landlocked Caspian and Aral seas have diverted so much water that the sea levels have dropped alarmingly over the past decade-by 10 ft. in the Aral alone. A scientist says that the only way to restore the Caspian Sea and to slake the "colossal thirst" of users along the way, is to turn rivers now flowing north to the Arctic Ocean southward. Some international scientists fear that without the usual supply of easily frozen fresh water reaching the northern seas, the polar icecap...
WEST GERMANY. In the wildest gasoline competition anywhere, Jersey Standard's Esso, the country's second biggest marketer after Germany's Aral, has been fighting for the top spot since last spring in a price-cutting war that may cost the companies $125 million in lost revenues this year. On the tire front, Goodyear will start building a $14 million factory this month near Heidelberg to boost its 7% share of the market and keep up with B.F. Goodrich, which is already working on a new $25 million plant. The two, along with Uniroyal and Firestone...
...Chapin knew that Russia's Canaveral is in the area around Tyuratam, east of the Aral Sea, and that the angle of orbit of the shot to the Equator was 65° in the direction of Siberia. From this he could construct the orbit once around the earth. He also knew that the elapsed time of the flight was 89 minutes, and could thus figure that the earth rotated on its axis 22½° in this time. Using these figures and constructing the orbit on a transparent globe, Chapin, a trained architect and self-trained geographer, decided that...