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...number of Chinese combat vessels has tripled to more than 300 since 1980. Behind the sped-up naval expansion program lie fears of the growing Soviet presence in Far Eastern waters, based in part on access and use privileges the Soviets have been granted at Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay. China also has offshore oilfields that might need protection in the future...
...prominent display in many stores this week will be a brand-new Eastman Kodak self-contained camera-video recorder, which uses narrow 8-mm tape. By Christmas the Kodavision unit will be joined by two more of the new generation of so-called camcorders: General Electric's Uni-Cam and a still-to-be-named Polaroid product. RCA has a system all ready to go, but is waiting to see how consumers respond...
...event of a war between the superpowers. The U.S., however, believes this continued access to the ports is necessary because of the growing Soviet presence in the southwestern Pacific. The use of air and maritime facilities in Viet Nam, most notably the former U.S. naval base at Cam Ranh Bay, has led to substantially greater Soviet activity in the region in recent years. Explained Shultz to his hosts: "It is not just a question of insisting on access, but of how a military alliance works. What kind of alliance would it be if our military forces were not allowed...
...faculty at the time. She was one of the first women to win a lifetime appointment here, thanks in part to a feisty benefactor who endowed a chair on the condition that it be filled by a female scholar. The professor, a medieval historian named Helen Maud Cam,learned as many lessons at Harvard as she taught. In her first years here, she was barred from attending morning services at Memorial Church; only after a struggle did she coax the church into bending its men-only rule...
...Crimson, which clinched its second straight Eastern League title Wednesday, probably needs a sweep of the 21-5-1 Judges to cam the Greater Boston League (GBL) crown. Brandeis (5-0 in the GBL) plays Division III rival MIT Saturday, while Harvard (5-1 GBL) hosts a twinbill with Dartmouth Tufts won the GBL last year...