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Triple Trailers. The same shadow game is played aloft, but there are very special rules. Soviet TU-16 Badger bombers with Egyptian markings fly out of Cairo West airbase to follow the Sixth Fleet and look for Polaris submarines. Whenever they get near the U.S. carriers, a "fastback alert" is sounded, and Phantom jets are catapulted off the carriers to keep the Badgers from getting too close. The Phantoms always approach gradually and at an angle, sometimes drawing abreast of the Soviet planes. On one such occasion, a Phantom pilot was surprised to see his Soviet counterpart hold...
...copping out with sex, drugs and violence. Now, embracing the most persistent symbol of purity, selflessness and brotherly love in the history of Western man, they are afire with a Pentecostal passion for sharing their new vision with others. Fresh-faced, wide-eyed young girls and earnest young men badger businessmen and shoppers on Hollywood Boulevard, near the Lincoln Memorial, in Dallas, in Detroit and in Wichita, "witnessing" for Christ with breathless exhortations...
...Harvard Independent, a 16-page weekly that published 10,000 copies of its first issue in October. Headed by Morris Abram Jr., son of the president of Brandeis University, the Independent aims to print opposing views of campus issues. The University of Wisconsin's new opposition weekly, the Badger Herald, promised at first to keep its news columns free of advocacy, but swung quickly to the right to reflect the views of its founders, the Young Americans for Freedom. After 93 years of campus monopoly, the Daily Princetonian is being challenged by an offset giveaway called the Princeton Notice...
...alone occupied, a corporate office or public agency. Yet Nader has managed to cut through all the protective layers and achieve results. He has shown that in an increasingly computerized, complex and impersonal society, one persistent man can actually do something about the forces that often seem to badger him ?that he can indeed even shake and change big business, big labor and even bigger Government...
...does the U.S. TU-95 Bear turboprop converted bombers have been working near Alaska, since the early 1960s. Most recently they have been keeping tab on the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean-sometimes flying with Russian markings, sometimes with Egyptian. A shorter-range reconnaissance airplane, the TU-16 Badger, until a year aeo made frequent flights down the Pacific coast of Japan to spy on Japanese radar installations; it earned the nickname "Tokyo Express." But since the sort of military information that is secret in Communist countries is often openly available in the West, the Soviet Union generally...