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...bush warfare. Infantry soldiers in black kit and camouflage are simply dropped off on a main road to walk into the jungle. There they may remain for two or three weeks without relief or resupply, living off the land or out of their rations (including rice and a thick African cornmeal paste called sadza). Whether tracking guerrillas by day or setting up ambush positions at night, the "troopies" communicate by hand signals as they search out foot and boot prints, bowed grass, broken camps or other varieties of "terr spoor," army slang for terrorist tracks. Says Major James Cromar...
...thick smokescreen surrounding one of the biggest mysteries of commercial aviation is clearing at last. Airlines will soon have to replace their aging fleets of about 1,500 707s, 727s and DC-8s, but existing models are too big or too small to meet the demand for an intermediate-range plane carrying 180 to 200 people. Many aerospace manufacturers have been reluctant to build new planes until they learn what Boeing, the industry leader, is going to do. Now Boeing seems to have settled on a basic design for a "high technology" jet. Says Jerry Cosley, TWA's director...
Having no expert to call on (they must all be out LOVING today) I'll just hazard my own guess: Hallmark's LOVE was conceived on a Manhattan subway car by a fat, bald, 35-year-old greeting card writer with thick glasses, a perspiring brow, a poster of Cheryl Tiegs on his closet door and a conscience burdened by the same aboriginal sins Alexander Portnoy complained about. In other words, the Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but somebody is trying to pervert Valentine...
Eskimos call it "the Land of the Little Sticks" because Arctic winds and bitter cold keep its stunted pines from growing beyond the thickness of a finger. But as Operation Morning Light continued in the Canadian wilderness near Great Slave Lake, the searchers discovered remnants of the nuclear-powered Cosmos 954: man-made sticks of radioactive metal stuck in the frozen tundra and ice-covered lakes. At least five chunks of the fallen Soviet spy satellite were located. One, a mere 10 in. long and ½in. thick, was emitting enough radiation to kill anyone foolish enough to hold...
...interest is in whether the Russians have yet achieved the ability, after ten years of experimentation, to use satellite-borne radar to track submerged submarines. Intelligence officials have dismissed speculation by some scientists that Cosmos 954's big, cylindrical nuclear power pack, a yard long and a yard thick, with its 110 lbs. of highly enriched uranium 235, was so powerful that it might actually have been part of a nuclear weapon or a hunter-killer satellite...