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...summer in the troubled relations between China and Russia. For the past few months the two nations have been engaged in a vituperative duel over the Chinese capture of a Soviet helicopter that strayed across the border into Sinkiang last March. The Soviets claim that the helicopter, with its three-man crew, was on a medical rescue mission when it lost its bearings over the Altai Mountains. The Chinese insist that the chopper "carried arms and reconnaissance equipment" and was involved in "espionage activities." Since their capture, the luckless Soviet crewmen have been paraded through border towns as centerpieces...
...which Rehnquist objected. And Justice Lewis Powell, joined by Justice Harry Blackmun, filed a concurring opinion warning that if the regulations were to go much further-say by lowering the $10,000 reporting minimum-they both might find the privacy claims more compelling and switch their votes, turning the three-man minority into a majority...
...billion and tapped the best of American technology; yet Skylab sometimes behaved like a castoff from a used-car lot. First it lost vital shielding and an electricity-generating solar wing. Then its steering rockets per formed so badly that NASA thought of sending up rescuers to evacuate its three-man crew. Finally, two of its stabilizing gyros faltered, threatening to send the 100-ton space station yawing and pitching like an angry whale...
Given Harvard's expected lack of a scoring punch, Munro has decided to go with a three-man front line, instead of the standard four. Manning the other two sports will be junior Art Fadden and Bussey Ate, a senior who sat out the last two seasons with an injured leg. These two must establish themselves as scoring threats if Harvard is to have a realistic chance against some of the top Ivy teams like Penn, Cornell and Brown...
Each school raced in three sets of events--dinghies (two-man crews), ravens (four-man crews) and K-boat (three-man crew)--with Harvard finishing second in points, but dropping to third behind Yale because of two disqualifications...