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President Nixon's Moscow visit last May ended with a joint communique that included agreement on "measures to prevent incidents at sea and in airspace over it between vessels and aircraft of the U.S. and Soviet navies." By indirection, the Russian exodus from Egypt has honored this pledge in one key sea. TU-16 Badger reconnaissance planes that have long overflown the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean from Egyptian bases have ended such flights and gone home. The games of "chicken" that scrambling U.S. carrier pilots played with them have stopped...
Egypt's position is the most complex. Indications are that the Russian exodus is much larger than Western watchers had first anticipated. It now seems likely that up to 90% of the 15,000 to 20,000 Soviet men (and women, in communications units) stationed in Egypt may leave. The first departures were not without rancor. At least one fight between Soviet and Egyptian soldiers was reported; newsmen attempting to take pictures of the exiting Russians had their cameras smashed...
...cornerstone of modern physics. When the Nazis came to power in the '30s, the society's fortunes sagged. Planck, who was head of the society during those turbulent years, tried to stop the Nazis from interfering with research, but he could not prevent the forced exodus of some 2,000 Jewish scientists. Finally, when World War II ended, the great research organization was as shattered as Germany itself. Renamed in honor of Planck in 1948, the society began its slow postwar revival. At the Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Konrad Lorenz's experiments with geese and fish shed...
...Lewis and Clark across the Rockies or hike for 825 miles past Civil War and Revolutionary battle sites near the Potomac. Hardy footsloggers may also be able to trudge the length of the Chisholm Trail-one of the three main cattle routes of the old Southwest-or retrace the exodus of the Mormons from Illinois to Salt Lake City. In addition to these long trails, the 1968 act also provided for a number of shorter paths within easy reach of cities; most are under ten miles long. Thirty-three of these National Recreation Trails are now available to hikers...
...Economics and Finance portfolios. Schmidt, whose youthful good looks help him to outdraw even Brandt in voter-preference polls, is a leading member of the party's right wing. With elections ahead, Brandt wanted to be certain that West German voters realized that Schiller's abrupt exodus did not mean a leftward swing by the Social Democrats away from the recent middle-of-the-road policies that helped bring them to power...