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...ease the adverse effects of changing climate, some people talk of "weather modification." Cloud seeding, for example, has been tried to release rains over parched fields. But the technique is still primitive and it raises serious political and ecological questions: if rain makers manage to bring water to one region will they be depriving another-perhaps in a neighboring country? The skilled plant breeders who created the Green Revolution can breed tougher grains to meet changes of climate. But these will take time to perfect, and their use will be limited unless science makes greater progress in long-range weather...
...latest example of space-age technology benefiting life on earth. One satellite, dubbed AT56 (for Applications Technology Satellite), is relaying educational TV programs to remote regions; the other, SM51 (Synchronous Meteorological Satellite), is a new breed of weather satellite equipped with infrared cameras that can shoot remarkably detailed cloud pictures even at night...
...paradigm of everything that went wrong with the American venture in Viet Nam. Enemies of U.S. policy seized upon the event to dramatize their case. The Army, anxious to protect its name, sought to isolate the tragedy and its participants as untypical of military performance. Yet beneath the cloud of symbolism and larger issues, there remain the essential legal questions: Was William Galley indeed guilty as charged? Did the circumstances permit a panel of his fellow officers to judge his case fairly...
Predictably, certain opportunists (how else to call them?) have begun preaching desertion of Harvard's bleached crimson banner, pegging their reasons to the ever changing climate of the gathering storm of controversy. No sooner did the cloud break than they scurried to higher ground, hoping to ride out the struggle. Like all true Christians, when the earth begins to shake, they look skyward for deliverance. They confess a change of heart while still supporting the administration's policies. They well know what is meant when it is said, "as the sun sets on your bloated master's careers...
...correspondents dispatched to report on our cover story had an old acquaintance with the curious ways of intelligence operators, both foreign and domestic. "I've spent much of the last five years of my journalistic career worrying about spooks of one stripe or another," says Washington Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who in 1969-70 served in our Moscow bureau. "There the problem was the KGB," recalls Cloud. "We worried about phone taps, room bugs, whether we were being followed and just who among the Russians was and was not an agent." Cloud's next assignment helped give him background...