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...territory that had been ruled by Jordan. Though the future status of the occupied area remained unresolved, the Israelis proceeded in the next 15 years to build 103 relatively modest Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Now, in direct defiance of the U.S., Israel has embarked on an extraordinary crash program to colonize the contested West Bank as quickly as possible...
Because of the highly inclined plane of the satellite's orbit (about 65° to the equator), Cosmos 1402 could crash almost anywhere, from as far north as Greenland to the southernmost tip of South America. That orbital path precluded any rescue attempt by the new U.S. space shuttle Challenger; even if it could be launched in time, it would be unable to achieve so tilted an orbit. As to just when Cosmos 1402 might strike, one U.S. intelligence officer said: "We'll be able to make some hard calculations about the time and place of landing when...
During the international storm that followed the crash of Cosmos 954, the Soviets briefly stopped launching nuclear-powered spy satellites, but flights resumed in 1980. Moscow insists that the reactors do not violate any treaty. The U.S. has not pressed the issue. For one thing, the Defense Department is itself considering using reactors to power laser and particle-beam weapons that may eventually be deployed in space. Also, NASA has already sent nuclear power packs to the moon and uses them regularly on robot spacecraft to the outer planets, like the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. (Reason: sunlight...
During the struggle for power at the Met that followed Sir Rudolf Bing's retirement as general manager and the death in 1972 of Göran Gentele, his successor, in an automobile crash, two men emerged triumphant. Bliss, whose father had been the Met's chairman of the board, became executive director and, later, general manager. Levine became music director. His boyish grin remained undimmed, even during the bitter labor dispute that postponed the opening of the 1980 season; it was, says Sue Thomson, "the closest I've ever seen him to being depressed...
When Princess Grace of Monaco died last summer in an auto crash, her brother John B. Kelly Jr., 55, led the members of their prominent Philadelphia family at the funeral. Last week Kelly was shot by a mugger near a gas station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The onetime Olympic oarsman, in town to give a rowing demonstration, was making a call from a phone booth when he was approached by a man with a small-caliber revolver who demanded money. Kelly tried to push him away, and the man shot him in the thigh. Kelly's doctors...