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...From everything I know," he says, "Andropov is a smarter, more imaginative breed of Soviet leader. While he's a ruthless, dedicated Communist, he's realistic enough to know that the Soviet Union is in desperate shape internally and that it's suffering from acute international indigestion. It has taken big bites out of Afghanistan and other countries, but it hasn't been able to digest them. It's paying the cost of conquest in Poland, Cuba and Viet Nam. The system has been an abject failure at home and has no appeal abroad...
...missile range, the stove-up old cowboy at the unemployment of fice, the interstate that plunges through the homesteads . . ." Threatened by land development and automated meat production, folks less durable than cowpunchers would have ridden into the sunset long ago. Yet they hang on, as evidenced by Vanishing Breed (New York Graphic Society; 144 pages; $29.95). More than 100 evocative photographs catch ranch hands and horses in landscapes where the Old West and the new one jostle for position: an AM-FM portable rests on a chuck wagon; pickup trucks wait outside wilderness taverns; mud-and blood-spattered rodeo riders...
...like pictures of the Sahara's subsurface were then analyzed by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Arizona, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority. The images of the area, says U.S.G.S. Research Geologist Carol Breed, "showed us a topography that could only have been buried. There was no trace of it on the surface." Marvels the head of the eight-member group interpreting the pictures, John F. McCauley of the U.S.G.S.: "We were able to look through and use radar as a time machine...
Geologists believe that radar scanning will be valuable in detecting modern waterways lying near the surface in arid areas. "If you want to look for water in the desert," says Breed, "you would look for that type of site where ground water intersects the surface." For archaeologists, the technique may help determine sites of early human habitation near former rivers and lakes. And, by indicating telltale subsurface features, it may prove a boon for geologists surveying for oil and minerals...
...week's orbital glitches ended so happily. For the first time since 1974, U.S. astronauts were scheduled for a space walk outside their cabin. But the EVA (NASAese for extravehicular activity) had to be postponed when Astronaut Bill Lenoir, 43, one of the space agency's new breed of scientifically trained mission specialists, came down with a bad case of space sickness, a puzzling ailment that afflicts about half of all travelers in zero-g. Lenoir may have contributed to his own queasiness by indulging a passion for spicy-hot jalapeño peppers during the flight...