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Loudspeakers carried the countdown across the claw-shaped coral atoll to scientists huddled in and around instrument-filled trenches. Radio carried it to some 40 ships and 100 aircraft of Joint Task Force 8 deployed over 6,000,000 sq. mi. of the Pacific. One of those aircraft, an Air Force B-52, sped at high altitude toward the island. In the operations center, Dominic's scientific director, William Elwood Ogle, wearing khaki shorts and a green aloha shirt, nodded to Joint Task Force 8's commander, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, a tough, tall...
Ajar Door. Speaking in the Legislative Council last week. Colonial Secretary Claude Burgess said Hong Kong's 3,250,000 population (a density of 8,200 per sq. mi.) was "now dangerously swollen'' and required a restrictive immigration policy to maintain the present standard of living. In sum. the speech suggested that Hong Kong will get tougher on the refugees but will continue to leave the door slightly ajar. One telling point made by Burgess: the refugee problem is one that "no country in the world is in practice willing to share with us." Over the past...
...dispute has shattered India's comfortable illusion that the Himalayas are an impenetrable line of defense. Since 1954, Red China has occupied 14,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in the Ladakh area of Kashmir, clamored for an additional 32,500 sq. mi. in the North East Frontier Agency near Burma's border. Other smaller chunks claimed by the Chinese brought the total to some 52,000 sq. mi...
...NORTH EAST FRONTIER AGENCY (pop. 450,000) is almost completely isolated from the rest of India. Though nominally part of the state of Assam, the rambling (31,000 sq. mi.) region is administered directly by the central government because Prime Minister Nehru wants to preserve its primeval aboriginal character. In some of N.E.F.A's valleys are nightmarish rain forests where animist tribesmen invoke among their deities a Dysentery God who, when angry, racks their guts with a quick but painful death...
McNamara also argues that the RS-70 would be useless unless equipped with target-spotting radar and target-obliterating nuclear missiles that have not yet been designed-and might never be. The proposed radar would have to scan 100,000 sq. mi. an hour while the plane was traveling at 2,000 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. To separate two points at that height, McNamara argued, would require a radar screen 15 ft. wide and 15 ft. high. By the late '60s, McNamara feels that the job of reconnaissance could be done by advanced versions of the Samos...