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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cruise missiles essentially amount to updated versions of the Nazis' World War II buzz bombs: small, pilotless jet planes that can be launched from land, ships or planes. The Air Force's cruise missiles fly at 550 m.p.h. about 50 ft. above the ground. That enables them to slip under the Soviets' line-of-sight radar to deliver 200-kiloton nuclear warheads with astounding accuracy-within 100 ft. of their targets. One version, the ALCM-A (for air-launched cruise missile), has a range of 750 miles. A second version, the ALCM-B, has extra fuel tanks...
Next to enforcing the law, nothing is more important than mobilizing the support of the community to fight crime. Like guerrillas, criminals have to live off the land; if it is not congenial, they will move elsewhere. In Memphis, some 900 concerned adults have volunteered to help with probation by befriending and advising problem youths. "The role model is a tremendous factor in youth crime," declares Judge Gelber. "The potential for great change is there. If a pimp can get to a kid, so can Walt Frazier...
Dawson, a dusty county seat in the rich, red clay farm land of southeast Georgia, proclaims itself the "Spanish Peanut Capital of the World." Just how long the town (pop. 5,383) can maintain that claim, however, is in doubt. This spring's rainfall was barely 6.4 in., one-third of what it was last year. The peanut plants, normally large and verdant, the size of trash-can tops with diminutive yellow flowers nestled in their leaves, are Frisbee size, no more than 12 in. wide, and wilting. As for Dawson's usually rich crop of corn, folk...
...rain here soon, a lot of people will go under and have to go into selling roadside peanuts to Plains tourists." Farmers in every county, including Tom Chandler, Billy Carter's partner in several peanut deals, are collecting one dollar for every acre of peanut land so they can hire an airplane for a month's cloud seeding at a total cost of $75,000. Last week the chairman of the fund-raising committee. Bill Whitaker, wrote Actor Burt Lancaster, reminding him that he had once starred in a movie called The Rainmaker (1956) and asking...
...quickly as they would like. But Nazir is making breakthroughs. One example: a crash program to improve the ports has cut waiting time for unloading ships from 90 days last year to almost zero. Says Finance Minister Mohamed Abdel-Kheil: "The textbooks used to speak of the need for land, labor and capital, but we have to add another factor: time...