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...brother of long-time Politburo Member Anastas I. Mikoyan; in Moscow. MIGs take their name from the surnames of Mikoyan and Mikhail I. Gurevich, who in 1940 built the MIG-3, which became the backbone of the Soviet high-altitude fighter force. Their MIG-15 became the Communist mainstay in the Korean War, while the supersonic MIG-21 is presently the first-line fighter for most Communist and many Arab air forces. Over the years, Western airmen have given the MIGs generally high marks, though the planes have almost invariably come off losers in actual combat...
Braless and Barefoot. Kathy Power, 21, was the suspect with the deepest commitment to radical politics. A sociology major with an excellent academic record, she was frequently involved in demonstrations, including S.D.S. rallies. Her passport indicated a recent trip to Cuba. Last spring she emerged as a mainstay of the Brandeis Strike Information Center, which was established in the wake of the Cambodian incursion as a clearinghouse for information about student strikes all over the U.S. While the majority of the students working at the center were moderates, much of the real leadership was composed of radicals...
...week before. The resulting dispute stemmed in part from the substantial differences in the ways the U.S. and Israel gather and evaluate their intelligence. To monitor the Suez Canal front, the Israelis rely chiefly on high-speed passes by camera-carrying Phantoms during the daytime. At night, the mainstay of Israeli intelligence is a chain of electronic listening posts in the Sinai hills near the canal. But both these methods have glaring weaknesses: the Phantom pictures are often blurred, and the electronic sensors, which monitor Egyptian and Soviet radar and radio transmissions, frequently pick up ambiguous signals that are difficult...
Some analysts go so far as to predict that the industry growing up around video cartridges will become a mainstay of the U.S. economy. By 1980, officials of RCA expect the new industry to reach $1 billion in revenues. Less conservative forecasters put the figure at three times that sum. So far, the cassette gold rush has attracted at least a dozen companies from the U.S., Japan and West Germany. They are battling for the emerging new medium with five competing but incompatible technologies...
...mainstay of his fortunes is King Resources, which searches for natural resources. It also produces some oil, gas and minerals but usually prefers to profit by dealing in leases and selling to other companies shares in the reserves that it finds. King and his family own about 16% of King Resources. They also own 92% of a second company, Colorado Corp., which sells to the public shares in highly speculative oil and gas wildcatting and in somewhat less risky development ventures. From these and some other businesses, Colorado earned $16 million on revenues of $54 million last year; sales...