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...spent in staff and intelligence posts. Abroad, Prem Chand, 61, has served the U.N. in a variety of delicate missions. He was the U.N. troop commander in Katanga province in the Congo (now Zaire) in 1962 and also the commander of observer forces in Cyprus from 1970 until 1976???a post in which he worked closely with Carver...
...itself. In 1976 the U.S. airline industry had the safest year in its history. The 2,300 airliners flew 2.5 billion miles, carried 220 million passengers and had only four fatal accidents. The record low was in 1975, with three fatal accidents, but only 45 people were killed in 1976???compared with 124 the year before. Flying by commercial jet in the U.S. is now at least 15 times as safe per passenger-mile as driving in a car. The passenger who shows his ticket to the smiling stewardess and buckles himself into his narrow seat has a 99.999% chance...
...programs for one year. Indeed, Ash wrote the State of the Union passage in which Ford said: "If we do not act to slow down the rate of increase in federal spending, the United States Treasury will be legally obligated to spend more than $360 billion in fiscal year 1976???even if no new programs are enacted...
...their own MiRVed missiles. The U.S. had thought the Russians were five years away from developing MIRV. Despite the tests, Schlesinger does not expect Russia to finish development of MIRV technology before 1976???and, more important, does not expect the Soviets to match U.S. inventory before the mid-1980s. Still, the tests were a disquieting sign that the relentless Soviet momentum in weapons research is closing the technology...
...able to communicate. Of course, as in any fresh religious movement, zealotry is never far away. Some in the movement even have divine timetables. Says Founder Bill Bright of the Campus Crusade for Christ: "Our target date for saturating the U.S. with the gospel of Jesus Christ is 1976???and the world by 1980. Of course, if the Lord wants to work a bit slower, that...
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