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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his fear of the Russians, the Shah receives extensive aid from the U.S.S.R. By Soviet count, 134 projects have been launched with Moscow's help, among them metallurgical plants, engineering facilities and a trans-Iranian trunk gas pipeline. Last March the Soviets built a new blast furnace at Isfahan; new smelting and rolling mills will follow soon. All told, these projects are claimed to account for the production of 90% of all coal in Iran, almost 90% of the iron ore and 70% of the steel...
...week's events left every significant political alliance in the Rhodesian crisis under serious strain. Smith has angered his Executive Council colleagues, one of whose aides called him a traitor. After such a split, he may find it difficult to count on their future support. One danger, in fact, is that an angry Muzorewa might one day decide to bolt to the Patriotic Front. As for Nkomo and Mugabe, they are more suspicious of each other than ever before. Even their mentors, the leaders of the front-line states, are now divided by a serious dispute...
Because South Africa has, at the latest count, only 5,000 black university graduates, IBM has been unable to find many qualified applicants for technical jobs. Hence the company last year donated $175,000 and the services of a senior manager to the University of Zululand to develop courses in data processing and systems analysis...
...plot differs from Star Wars only in detail: by some devilish mischief, a race of robots has zapped twelve of the 13 planets harboring the human race. Led by a human renegade called Count Baltar, a first cousin to Darth Vader, the robots take off in hot pursuit of the survivors of the dozen planets, who are manning a ragtag fleet hovering around the "battlestar" Galactica. The humans are desperately searching for the 13th planet, a lost, legendary human colony called Earth. Lorne Greene is the wise old man in charge, and Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch play Han Solo...
...stars and planets. Similar tricks were also used to move the various robots. Whereas Artoo Detoo was powered by a midget, Galactica's Muffit hides a chimpanzee, which Dykstra figured could more easily reproduce the unpredictable, jumpy actions of another animal, or robot animal. The formidable Lucifer, Count Baltar's aptly named robot assistant, however, does house a man. Since Actor Bobby Porter is only 4 ft. 11 in., the towering Lucifer has 18 unoccupied inches on top for a plastic head and enough flashing lights to start his own discoth...