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...Soviet Union can launch the first satellite, the first astronaut in space and the Second World War-winning T-34 tank, but it is behind -- perhaps as much as a decade -- in high-tech avionics, guidance systems and the whole range of electronics. But the Soviet designer is not stupidly proud. If someone has a better idea than he does, he accepts it. And that is what GRU activities in the West are all about...
...number of space glitches, none of them momentous. A drinking-water spigot temporarily stuck, leaving the crew so thirsty that some proposed to use the water in their survival-kit rations. The crew successfully spun off one satellite that will aid air-traffic control, but they were unable to launch another that could have assisted the Defense Department in tracking submarines. Reason: the apparent failure, possibly due to weak batteries, of a microswitch on the door of the canister housing the satellite. Other frustrations included a sticky latch on an air lock in the Spacelab, which prevented mission specialists from...
...quarters as well. Jordin Kare, a physicist with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, has suggested that a 24-in. Schmidt telescope in Australia be used with a computer scanning system called the Star Cruncher to survey the Southern Hemisphere skies. If these approaches turn up a blank, Kare and Muller will launch a Star Cruncher search in the north. And at JPL, Astrophysicist Thomas Chester, chief of the I.R.A.S. data team, is sifting through recorded I.R.A.S. transmissions looking for Nemesis and other unusual objects. Although I.R.A.S. operated for only ten months in 1983 before dying, it managed to chug out data...
...weaning to Husserl: "Husserl ... gripped me. I saw everything through the perspectives of his philosophy." After four years, Sartre made the break: "His philosophy evolved ultimately towards idealism, which I could not accept." He turned to Heidegger. From 'What is Metaphysics?' to Being and Time, Sartre was later to launch into his own discussion of existentialism. He even used the title Being and Nothingness, modeling it after Heidegger's book...
...International Monetary Fund, imposed austerity measures that included sharp increases in the prices of bread and fuel. That show of discipline prompted Washington, two weeks ago, to free $67 million in assistance that had been frozen since mid-August. It also moved the people of Sudan to launch the general strike that brought Nimeiri down...