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...return of so much airpower to the Indochina battle-field hides the fact that the Nixon Administration does not really fear that Hanoi and the PRG can do much damage to the Thieu regime during Tet, the lunar new year. When questioned about the situation a highly placed official appeared to hope that Hanoi would expend all its energies during Tet on the theory that its whole military apparatus would be destroyed. During the next four years that Hanoi would require to rebuild its forces, the 'force of reason' and a decrease in Russian and Chinese aid would convince Hanoi...
...borders may not move for months, preferring to psych Saigon with what the military calls a "credible threat" rather than risk heavy casualties in an open fight. But most of the experts predict trouble for next month-specifically, around Feb. 15, the beginning of the three-day Tet lunar New Year celebration. Says Lieut. Colonel Robert Brownlee, a U.S. adviser attached to a South Vietnamese regiment in the Central Highlands: "The enemy's got a new goddamn division and three good regiments across the border in this area, and Tet is coming and Nixon's going to Peking...
...moon was rapidly heated, possibly by its radioactive elements, and underwent surface melting about 4.5 billion years ago. In contrast with delegates to previous "rock conferences," the experts assembled this year were unusually reticent about advancing new theories on the moon's evolution. Said Geochemist Paul Cast, chief lunar scientist at the Manned Spacecraft Center: "We have so much data to examine that the boys just aren't doing much speculating." Added NASA Geochemist Robin Brett: "The Apollo 15 material alone will keep us busy for about five years...
...Houston, it was not Mars but the moon that was on the minds of nearly 700 scientists who gathered at the Manned Spacecraft Center for the third lunar science conference. For most, it was a highly profitable trip. The conferees exchanged reams of data from last year's flight of Apollo 14 and received more recent information from the instruments taken to the moon by the Apollo 15 astronauts. Among other things, the scientists were told that the moon, as measured by temperature probes placed in the lunar surface, seems to be giving off heat at twice the rate...
Though only indirect evidence has been found in lunar rocks, the moon apparently once had a magnetic field. Finally, the differences in composition between the lunar highlands and the moon's maria are somewhat similar to those between the earth's relatively lightweight continents and its denser deep-sea floor...