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...that in a reunified Germany the Red Army could no longer "cork" the threat of German expansion -either military or economic-into Eastern Europe. To allay that fear, Barzel proposed that Germany assume "special military status" outside NATO and that Soviet troops be allowed to remain on reunited German soil. He reiterated earlier promises of a continuing German aid-and-trade arrangement with Eastern Europe and proposed an economically palatable 5% annual increase for the next 20 years as well. Barzel also suggested that the Communist Party could be "legalized" in a reunified Germany. His speech was strictly a personal...
...been shot on earth, it would hardly have been worth a first glance. Its composition was uninspired and its subject - a rough-surfaced grey rock lying on brownish grey, clumpy soil -was singularly dull. Yet it was a histor ic picture - a color photograph taken on the surface of the moon. The dis tinguished and prolific photographer: Surveyor...
...manned lunar landing; its consistency is almost earthlike, and its bearing strength -about 5 Ibs. per sq. in.-is more than enough to support the weight of Apollo's Lunar Excursion Module. "In one sentence," said JPL Project Scientist Leonard Jaffe, "the moon surface looks like a soil, not very hard, with rocks and clods...
...Brezhnev explained to a party meeting in Moscow last week, the Soviet Union will spend roughly $45 billion during the next five years to 1) mechanize the farms, 2) increase chemical-fertilizer output, 3) irrigate 6,500,000 acres of arid soil, and 4) rehabilitate and drain an estimated 11 million acres of potentially tillable land. Unlike Khrushchev, who concentrated on opening up Asian virgin lands, Brezhnev and Kosygin plan to put the main emphasis on improving already cultivated areas west of the Urals. Brezhnev also put his prestige behind the most unusual departure in Soviet agriculture since the 1930s...
...learn more about the lunar surface, JPL scientists decided to fire the small attitude-control thrusters located near the bottom of each of Surveyor's three legs, less than a foot above the surface. Seven different times, the thrusters fired jets of nitrogen into the lunar soil while Surveyor's camera shot pictures of the area near its feet. The pictures showed no clouds of dust-another indication that the lunar surface is firmly packed. By week's end, as the sun rose toward its apex in the lunar sky, shortening shadows and making it more difficult...