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...team is to hire out at a flat $7.50 an hour in support jobs like motorman or cage operator. Adds Burns: "If you're going to mine gold, you might as well make money at it." Aberle agrees. But as they call it a day after 7½ hrs. underground and start on the regular 40-min. commute upward to the surface, he ponders some roads not taken. Says he: "And I always wanted to be a wilderness guide...
...champagne and whiffs of oxygen. The marathoner attempted the feat three weeks ago, but gave up after being stung by a Portuguese manofwar; this time she sprayed herself with latex, "prayed to the Portuguese man-of-war god," and proceeded to finish the 89-mile swim in 27 hrs. and 38 min. Now she will pursue her other goal: the 130-mile crawl from Cuba to the Florida Keys. If she succeeds, it will be her last lap. Says Nyad: "Where do you go after that...
That afternoon Carter and Brezhnev talked 2¼ hrs. about SALT II and related arms issues. The Soviet leader objected to U.S. plans to build the MX missile, which will be movable to make it less vulnerable to attack. Said Brezhnev: "I don't understand why you're building this missile." He warned that if the missile cannot be verified by the Soviets "this will plant a mine under further negotiations." Carter replied that the missile would indeed be verifiable and therefore within the SALT II limits. The two leaders also exchanged views on the Soviet Backfire bomber, U.S. cruise missiles...
Carter and Brezhnev will have their first business session on Saturday morning at the baroque U.S. embassy. For two hours they will make a survey of world problems. After lunch- and a nap for Brezhnev- they will talk together for 1 1/2 hrs. more. At this meeting they expect to settle any language disputes on SALT II and officially open discussion on SALT III, the next round of negotiations...
Sunday morning Carter will rejoin Brezhnev at the somber 19th century Soviet embassy for 31/2 hrs. more of talks. Carter intends to ask for Soviet cooperation in the Middle East and southern Africa, but he harbors no illusions that Brezhnev will go along with U.S. strategy in those troubled areas. The President also plans to raise some arms-related issues, including a freeze on anti-satellite weapons, restraints on conventional arms sales, a ban on chemical warfare and a new effort to invigorate the stalled M.B.F.R. talks...