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...provide the kind of politically stable and orderly legal environment which is the first pre-requisite for investments in the all important manufacturing sector. And it means transforming our military aid and assistance programs into new programs of aid and assistance directed towards the creation of the necessary infra-structure, in terms of regional power, transport, and communication facilities. If these things were done, it would leave only agricultural reform, and local infra-structure (both of which can and should be undertaken at the local level, under local initiative, as a way to insure popular participation) in order to complete...
Equipped with two separate systems of sensors, the experimental satellite "sees" its subject in three different colors: near infra-red (beyond the range of human vision), green and red. Transmitted separately back to earth, these colors can be combined to produce eerie multicolor photographs that are highly informative. ERTS owes its perceptive ability to the fact that every object, living or inanimate, emits, absorbs or reflects light in a highly characteristic way. Such spectral "signatures" are especially distinctive in infrared. ERTS, for instance, uses its infra-red sensors not only to identify crops in an area but also to tell...
...after another, the orchards near Yuba City, Calif., yielded their grisly secrets. Using shovels, a tractor and eventually even a light plane with an infra-red camera, police unearthed 25 decomposing bodies, mostly itinerant farm laborers, all hacked to death with a machete-like weapon. It was the worst series of murders in U.S. history...
Sixty-six year old Whipple gained international repute for his studies of meteors, comets and the moon. He is directing the construction of a large optical telescope designed for infra-red and optical astronomy...
...yards from the helicopters and the other two on the field-had been instructed to fire whenever the Arabs presented the greatest number of targets. The cautious terrorists never exposed more than four of their number at a time. To complicate matters, the local police sharpshooters had turned down infra-red sniperscopes offered by the West German army because they had never been trained to use them. They sighted through regular scopes at a field illuminated by floodlights and stippled by shadows. Nonetheless, one marksman squeezed off a round and the others quickly followed suit...