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...East bloc ally. The "National Voice of Iran," a source of inflammatory anti-U.S. propaganda, is actually located in the Soviet Union. Furthermore, other Moscow-aligned Communist countries deliver more than 5,000 additional hours a week of pro-Soviet (and anti-American) broadcasting, more than twice the output of Radio Moscow. Radio Havana broadcasts to Africa and Europe through transmitters in the U.S.S.R. In parts of the U.S., Radio Havana can be heard at 600 kHz on AM radio...
...same time, according to the authoritative Petroleum Intelligence Weekly newsletter, stepped-up oil exploration efforts are boosting output in many non-OPEC areas. During 1980, production jumped by 32% in Mexico, by 10% in the North Sea and by 1.3% in the U.S., which is experiencing its biggest drilling boom since the mid-1950s...
Indeed, a plan to tighten the market back up, was precisely what the six OPEC ministers had gathered in Geneva to discuss. At the meeting was not just Saudi Arabia's Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose nation accounts for almost half of the cartel's oil output, but representatives of Kuwait, Nigeria, Algeria, Indonesia and Venezuela as well...
...million households now eligible to buy food stamps would be dropped from the rolls next year. And while total spending and tax collections would rise, they would grow less rapidly than the private economy; federal expenditures, as a proportion of the nation's total output of goods and services, would shrink from 23% this fiscal year to 19% in 1986, while the share taken by taxes would dwindle from 21.1% to 19.6%. In short, Washington would become a gradually diminishing force in American life...
...keep the shuttle from burning up on reentry. It has also been plagued by trouble in its complex engines, which burn fuel at 6,000° C, hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore the Apollo astronauts aloft. Unlike the J-2s, they are not dropped away after takeoff but are designed to be reused for as many as 55 flights...