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This year, from nearby Red Lake, Ont, Canadian and American agencies are launching 34 atmospheric rockets to look for other surprises. The U.S. Navy, for example, wants to learn how electrical changes in the ionosphere, some apparently connected to fluctuations in solar radiation, disrupt radio contact between ground stations and satellites. In a NASA-owned Learjet, Physicist T. Allan Clark of the University of Calgary will study the sun's eruptions, seeking links between this activity and terrestrial climate...
...Ogilvy) is impotent, at least as far as women are concerned. Turning pimp, he persuades his publisher to perform his husbandly duties upstairs while he reads his drivel to a party in the drawing room. In another, Sarah (Pauline Collins), who has quit her downstairs job, returns to disrupt the other servants with seances and other outlandish acts. It is hinted that she and Rose (Jean Marsh, co-creator of the series) had had an affair when Sarah was there before. Speaking of Rose's current roommate, Sarah says, "I'll bet she's not as warm...
...implied strongly that they had received tacit assurances that Peking would not invade Taiwan. In the Shanghai communique, Peking insisted that it had the right to liberate Taiwan. Mainland China, Teng now told the Ad ministration, will seek reunification, but slowly, peacefully, and in a manner that will not disrupt Taiwan's capitalistic economic system. The U.S. will continue to sell Taiwan "selective defensive weapon ry"?which might include interceptor air craft, artillery, and antitank weapons. Said Carter, during an unusual visit to the White House press room after his speech: "The interests of Taiwan have been ad equately...
...before the 1968 cointelpro "to disrupt the new left," the FBI focused much of its work into disrupting black nationalist organizations, the Ku Klux Klan, other race-hate groups--and the Communist Party...
...bureau sent phony letters to mob leaders, signed by Communist Party members, protesting the working conditions of local labor union "sweatshops." The selected unions had intimate mob ties, and the FBI's goal was to disrupt both groups by expending "their energies, time, and money attacking the other...