Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Kremlin has raised American suspicion by stepping up experiments with two models of MIRV (multiple, independently targeted re-entry vehicle), which are designed to be borne by the giant S59 and the smaller SS-11 missiles. In response, the Pentagon last week authorized the Navy to triple its research program on ULMS (undersea long-range missile system), which could eventually become the most effective nuclear deterrent if the Soviets develop the capacity to knock out American land-based bombers and Minutemen...
...Gnat. The Department of Agriculture is trying to banish the fire ant. But its latest plan for doing it is under sharp attack by three conservationist groups-the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and CLEAN (Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural). The Department's program calls for discharging 450 million pounds of a bait containing 1,350,000 lbs. of Mirex-a powerful chlorinated hydrocarbon-on 150 million acres of land in nine Southern states. In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., "on behalf of all citizens of the United States...
...Justice Department has now issued a reply attacking the conservationists' suit on strictly legal grounds. According to Justice, the plaintiffs have no legal right to bring suit against the Department of Agriculture, because it enjoys "sovereign immunity." They also claim that the suit is premature, since the program has not yet been finally approved or funded. Furthermore, for a variety of technical reasons, it is impossible for the plaintiffs to claim that they represent "all citizens . . ." Therefore, Justice argues, the entire suit should be dismissed...
Shortly after he took charge of the Rockefeller Foundation's wheat-improvement program in Mexico 26 years ago, a young American plant pathologist named Norman E. Borlaug began a momentous series of cross-breeding experiments. With the germ plasm of plants from four different countries, he succeeded in developing a remarkable new kind of wheat that was able to flourish in all of Mexico's widely varied growing conditions. His work quickly put Mexico on the road to self-sufficiency in wheat production. But it had an even more important result: it sowed the seeds of the Green...
...verge of producing enough wheat to meet its own needs. Neighboring West Pakistan, also a recipient of the miracle wheat, has already achieved that goal. Indeed, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations were so elated by Borlaug's work that they joined forces in establishing a similar international program for rice improvement headquartered in the Philippines...