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More significant than the size of the surplus is the simple fact that Rosovsky and his University Hall accounting team have balanced the budget again. From 1968 to 1977 the Faculty found its budget over-extended across new programs and expanded services begun in the prosperous '60s, and it ran a deficit in most of those years. The 1976-77 budget was the first to show a surplus in almost a decade...
...course, the fickle economic cycle may turn again, reducing inflation and allowing the capital campaign to leave a more solid achievement. And, on the other hand, if inflation holds steady at 13 per cent for the next five years, worse problems across the nation may overshadow the plight of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. But the College has weathered many gales over three and a half centuries, and no matter what happens in the world outside, its leaders intend it to survive and maintain its standards. Only right now, they're not sure...
Shapiro describes the problem as "an Alice in Wonderland situation." Universities, he explains, produce very low-level wastes but they must ship them across the country to a place "that should be reserved for high-level materials." With Barnwell effectively shut down, only Hanford and a site in Beattie, Nevada are still taking low-level deposits. At Hanford, officials are already concerned, because containers not meant for more than five-year storage are being misused. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials are considering only one new low-level disposal site--the Lion, Kansas salt mines, once ruled unfit to store high...
...searchlights swept menacingly over the heavily guarded border between East and West Germany, a raggedy patchwork balloon, traveling at a leisurely 10 to 15 knots, floated across the wall of fortifications, minefields, self-firing explosives and guard towers. Minutes later, the bizarre craft crash-landed on West German soil. East Germans were aboard: Mechanic Hans Peter Strelczyk, Bricklayer Gunter Wetzel, their wives and four children. Once again, human ingenuity and the will to freedom had prevailed over Communist East Germany's determination to immure its citizens behind the most formidable frontier in history...
...June an East Berlin engineer, while piloting a glider, suddenly changed course and rode thermal currents across to the West. In August a Dresden family stole a plane; though none of them had ever flown before, they managed to steer the craft across the border to a safe crash landing. Earlier this month, a driver assigned to U.S. Ambassador to East Germany David Bolen hid his family in the trunk of the envoy's official car, drove uninspected through "Checkpoint Charlie" and got political asylum in West Berlin...