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Even though it came from a small company competing against the giants of the field, there was nothing modest about the announcement made last week by KMS Industries Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich. The firm claimed that its scientists had briefly sustained a laser-generated fusion reaction and called its work a "definitive step" toward taming thermonuclear fusion-the same process that produces the explosive power of the hydrogen bomb and the vast heat and radiation...
...been a frequent target of student protests because of its role in planning the Indochina war. The institute's JASON summer project did the early planning for what became the Army's "integrated battlefield control system"--the electronic battlefield of sensors, anti-personnel bombs, mines and laser-guided "smart" bombs on which American planners increasingly relied as the war went...
...payment will certainly come from French arms. Already France has reportedly contracted to sell the Saudis 38 Mirage HiE fighter-bombers, 275 AMX-30 tanks and an assortment of antitank missiles and amphibious equipment. In addition, the French are negotiating with the Saudis to equip the tanks with advanced laser aiming devices and infra-red detector systems -which would make them the most sophisticated tanks in the world...
Brief Exposure. Though the laser is a complex mechanism, its application is relatively simple. Inserting a tube that gives them line-of-sight access to the vocal cords, the surgeons aim the laser through the passage by means of a binocular microscope and a tiny beam of normal white light. After zeroing in on the target growth, the surgeon then steps on a foot pedal that opens a shutter on the laser and allows the infra-red laser beam to strike the diseased tissue for as little as one-tenth or as much as one-half of a second...
...team, which has used the laser on more than 100 patients in the past 18 months, cautions that it is still too early to determine whether the growths removed will recur. But they are encouraged by their results to date, and so are their patients. Most patients who undergo laser surgery can eat, drink and talk (although only in a whisper) shortly after the anesthetic wears off. All leave the hospital the next...