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Anderson and his son Kristian, 23, laid claim to another major record last week: the first balloon crossing of North America. Their craft was the Kitty Hawk, a 75-ft. teardrop of fragile polyethylene filled with 200,000 cu. ft. of helium. Dangling from the balloon was an 11-ft. by 5-ft. red, white and blue gondola. It carried the Andersons and 5,000 lbs. of ballast and supplies, including ten radios, a folding cot, a backgammon board and a week's worth of fried chicken, peanut butter and chocolate-chip cookies...
...little to help the peace process with the selection of their new Foreign Minister to succeed Moshe Dayan, who resigned in October. The choice: Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a leader of the extremist Stern Gang during the struggle for Israel's independence, and a very determined hawk. Shamir abstained from voting on both the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty when they came before the Knesset for approval. One opposition spokesman charged in parliament that it was "the height of absurdity" to name a foreign policy spokesman opposed to his government's major diplomatic...
...Camel Station (as American sailors have nicknamed the area), the U.S. has had as many as 27 warships there simultaneously. More crucial than raw figures is the power of the U.S. force. On patrol last week were the super-carriers Nimitz (which recently replaced Kitty Hawk), Midway and Coral Sea, with their full battle groups of guided missile cruisers, destroyers, frigates, oilers and other support vessels. Along with them cruised undisclosed numbers of U.S. submarines. The Navy is keeping its ships at Camel Station at highest readiness status, and there are frequent alerts. Some crews in fully armed planes...
...able to intercept the other's radio transmissions, all important messages are scrambled before being sent. But there have been times when the two sides have communicated with each other, usually using signal lights or flag hoists. In one exchange, a Soviet ship signaled: "Where is Kitty Hawk?" Pausing slightly, the frigate Fanning flashed back: "Kitty Hawk is a small town in North Carolina...
Total enrollment is expected to shrink dramatically from the present record 11.5 million as the last of the baby-boom generation graduate by 1983. Pinched by the loss of all that tuition and by rising costs, schools will be under pressure to hawk their wares in the student marketplace. As the council sees it, the result will be a shift away from traditional academic disciplines and toward instruction in vocational skills like nursing and accounting. The change is already visible in community colleges and lesser-ranked four-year institutions. Observes the report: "Excellence was the theme. Now it is survival...