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Everywhere, U.S. bulldozers are turning up the rich Thai soil to build roads, fuel pipelines, stockpile depots, communication nets. This mushrooming complex of support facilities is designed to support...
...charged that Soviet troops were no longer needed in Eastern Europe, since the threat of U.S. aggression had faded. It proposed that any nation desiring Russian troops on its soil should conclude bilateral treaties with Moscow to keep them. The message also suggested that Moscow should gain the unanimous approval of all Warsaw Pact nations before it ever uses its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. And, asked the Rumanians, why should not the command of the Warsaw Pact military alliance be rotated among member nationalities, rather than remaining solely in Russian hands...
...many others before him, Maurois reckons up the bill that Balzac's output-97 novels and novellas, scores of stories, articles and plays, 6,000,000 words-owes to the author's experiences. The son of a petit bourgeois whose roots ran deep in France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from the slope of his modest villa in Ville...
...simulate a mid-air breakup, the scientists dropped bomb parts from a high-flying plane at White Sands Missile Range, then photographed the craters made by the parts as they hit the ground. The pictures were rushed to Palomares, where searchers looked in vain for similar patterns on Spanish soil...
Back at their computers, other scientists of Sandia determined that the radioactive contamination of Spanish soil had been caused entirely by the two recovered bombs that had broken apart on impact. Had another bomb shattered on land, the level of radio activity would have been higher. Thus the scientists assumed that either the missing bomb had not broken apart on hitting land, or it had fallen into the sea. Further ballistics analysis and wind data enabled the Sandia computers eventually to plot the probable trajectory of the missing bomb and locate where it had hit the water. Their calculations tended...