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...days of Nikita Khrushchev, who once admitted to Sadat that "we cannot drive people into paradise with a stick," Moscow has hoped that the Egyptians would eventually find their own way into the socialist Eden. Egypt's only political party, the Arab Socialist Union, appeared an ideal ideological instrument for the journey; it was certainly no accident that Ali Sabry, Sadat's principal competitor for power, was until last month both the dominant voice within the A.S.U. and the Egyptian leader closest to Moscow...
...have ever had before. It is a huge, 328-ft. paraboloid nestled in West Germany's Eifel hills at Effelsberg, about 25 miles southwest of Bonn. More than 75 feet larger than the existing record holder, Britain's big Jodrell Bank radio antenna, the steel-and-aluminum instrument is now undergoing its final checkouts before it begins scanning the heavens in earnest this fall...
Meticulous Design. The first radio telescope, a crude antenna that turned on wheels cannibalized from a Model T Ford, was made 40 years ago by a Bell Labs scientist named Karl Jansky. In contrast, the new German instrument is a model of engineering sophistication. The entire telescope can be rotated a full 360° on a circular railroad-type track in only nine minutes. Its plate-and-mesh reflector can be tilted 90° from a point directly overhead to the horizon in only half that time. Furthermore, the telescope has been so meticulously designed that the stresses caused...
...month, 290,000,000-mile flight, the Soviets said, was to conduct scientific investigations of the Red Planet. But the great weight of the spacecraft immediately suggested the possibility that the Russians may attempt a soft landing. The U.S. is not scheduled to launch its Viking soft-lander instrument package toward Mars until 1975. Said NASA's Deputy Administrator George Low of the Russian effort: "I hope it gets there, and I hope we share with them in the data...
...November 1968, Nixon invited Kissinger to accept the post of foreign policy assistant and proposed a revival of the National Security Council. Set up under Truman after World War II to coordinate policy planning, the NSC system had long since fallen into obscurity, but Nixon viewed it as an instrument of restoring to the White House a critical measure of flexibility and control over policy decisions. More than anything else, Nixon dreaded being handed a single policy recommendation which, more often than not, might be a compromise policy, an effort on the part of several differing agencies which had subdued...