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...power. The Soviets did nothing of the sort. By the early 1980s the U.S.S.R. will probably have caught up with us in almost every modern military category. Their research into new weapons of terror, though now behind ours, will perhaps exceed our own because of the sheer concentration of effort...
...Islam to exercise temporal as well as spiritual power. At its nadir, in all the Arab world, only Yemen and Saudi Arabia, poor and backward, were nominally independent. Iran, Afghanistan and secularized Turkey, where Kemal Ataturk had disestablished Islam as his country's official religion in an effort to forge a stable and progressive nation, were free. But elsewhere?on the Indian subcontinent, in Southeast Asia, in Africa and the Pacific?millions of Muslims were under colonial rule...
...British Empire, I am prepared to die in defense of the motherland, Uganda." With his habitual bombast, Uganda's murderous President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada, 55, last week tried to put the best face on his disintegrating hold on national power. It was, apparently, a futile effort. After several days of sporadic fighting, the occupation force of largely Ugandan exile troops entered the outskirts of Kampala and prepared for a final push. Though scattered fighting still continued in pockets, the invading forces were poised to take control of Uganda's capital...
MORE IMMEDIATELY, though, we must be concerned with how to proceed in the effort to meet this nation's ever-expanding appetite for fuel. The President seems committed to the further development of nuclear power. He said this week we cannot "abandon the nuclear supply of energy in our country, in the for seeable future." His assessment is not astonishing, when cities like Chicago get almost half their electricity from nuclear plants and the nation as a whole gets 12 to 13 per cent of its electricity from reactors...
Refering to the building's interior, McKinnell said, "The attitude toward color and light adds to one's visual pleasure and makes it a very joyful building. It's a marvelous effort...