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...account of what he claims "may have been the most dangerous of all the confrontations this nation has ever faced." According to Haldeman, U.S. intelligence learned in 1969 that the Russians had moved "nuclear-armed divisions" along the Ussuri River within two miles of the Chinese border. Aerial photos showed "hundreds of Soviet nuclear warheads stacked in piles. Eighteen thousand tents for their armored forces erected overnight in nine feet of snow...
...Aerial Garbage...
Under a microscope, it resembles a stylized Navaho rug or the aerial view of a railroad switching yard. Like the grains of sand on a beach, it is made mostly of silicon, next to oxygen the most abundant element on the surface of the earth...
...concerned about protecting information obtained from its highly expensive seismographic surveys of land and offshore sites. The company's spending for exploration tops $200 million a year. Such expenditures are beyond the reach of smaller firms, which often deal in the thriving black market for oil maps and aerial surveys. In taking its case to court, Mobil is hoping that, if nothing else, the feisty wildcatters at Superior will have second thoughts about seducing people who hold secrets...
...served by the new power cable, they want no part of it. As the line's intimidating 150-ft.-tall towers march through relatively small family farms, a landowner can find his hard-won acres chopped up. The high wires also discourage pilots from doing increasingly important aerial spraying and seeding. Besides, Minnesota farmers are fully aware of the experience of people living near similar high-voltage lines elsewhere. The lines literally snap, crackle and pop, and they set up electromagnetic fields that can produce jolting, if nonlethal, shocks in anyone touching ungrounded machinery and other metallic conductors within...