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Soviet jet experts faced a serious problem: despite the use of grain alcohol, an old but effective deicer, the windshields of MIG-25 Foxbat interceptors were icing up. What had gone wrong? The answer, according to Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko: Soviet crew chiefs on the ground were drinking the grain alcohol to relieve Siberian boredom and surreptitiously replacing the liquid with water...
Kissinger, who just barely had time to unpack his bags in Washington following his return from his twelve-day mission in southern Africa, journeyed to Manhattan to give the U.S. answer at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. In a solemn, hourlong address, he rejected the Soviet charges in blunt terms. Washington, he said, had become involved diplomatically in southern Africa because it was convinced that "racial injustice and the grudging retreat of colonial power" had raised the possibility that the region could become "a vicious battleground with consequences for every part of the world...
...Brady Bunch was preempted that afternoon of Aug. 24: Allan T. Howe was on the courthouse steps spitting venom. One reporter asked Howe if he had ever had a girlfriend in the Four Corners area--the site of the controversial Kaiparowits power plant. Howe started to answer but was cut off by his wife's vehement reply: "Of course he had a girlfriend. Me!" His attorney said that such questions are the reason Howe can never get a fair trial in Utah. The reporter tried to ask another question, but Howe interrupted to ask what paper he was from. When...
...never come up in science before. Let me say now that the issue of scientific inquiry tends to come up in this connection. No one wants to interfere with the freedom of scientific inquiry. What we're worried about in this case is the means being used to answer the questions. I think that scientists must be free to ask any questions they choose, but they can't be free to endanger their fellow human beings...
Critics complain that Ford lacks compassion for America's unfortunates, noting that most of his 56 vetoes have been aimed at social welfare programs. But the vetoes reflect Ford's innate skepticism that big Government programs are the answer to society's shortcomings. Aides have often detected a hard edge to the President's voice in discussions of pending social legislation. One White House adviser describes him as "the kind of guy who would take his shirt off his back and give it to a poor kid he saw on the street and then walk...