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...ion engine is far more economical. With electricity generated by solar panels, it strips electrons off the atoms of vaporized mercury passing through a coffee-can-like chamber, converting them to ions. Expelled at high speeds in a focused beam, the charged particles act like a rocket exhaust, propelling the craft forward. Though its thrust is minuscule and far too feeble to lift payloads from the earth, the ion engine performs efficiently in the vacuum of space. It can function for years because it draws on solar energy and uses fuel sparingly. It can be stopped and restarted countless times...
Directed and Written by Yannick Bel Ion...
...Ceauşescu's five brothers, Ilie is a major general, Ion is a deputy minister of agriculture, Marin is a counsel at the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, and Florea is a senior editorial writer for the party newspaper, Scinteia. His brother Nicolae (in Rumania, brothers sometimes have the same first name) is consul-general in Kiev...
Reverend Leon Sullivan is expanding his operation so that he will have an on-site monitoring capability, and we hope that he is including in his plans, or has an intent ion of, distributing his efforts on a company-by-company basis to interested shareholders like Harvard. He has not done that thus far and has forced the University in the form of the ACSR to sort of duplicate a great deal of what has gone on, and I will describe that briefly...
...bespectacled Rumanian trade official's visit to Cologne seemed routine. After checking into the Inter-Continental Hotel one day last July, he spent the week negotiating an agreement for his country to produce a West German transport plane. Then, on the eve of his scheduled return to Bucharest, Ion Pacepa, 50, disappeared. Mystified Rumanian diplomats asked the Cologne police to investigate, but the search turned up no clues. Pacepa had vanished without a trace...