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...would the Thais object to a reduction in the number of U.S. servicemen stationed on their soil. There are now 50,000, barely fewer than are in South Korea. "Thailand is a country that stands on its own two feet," said Nixon as he urged the Thais to make new domestic reforms. Foreign Minister Thanat Kho-man took the cue from his guest. "It is an absolute necessity for Thailand to have many different measures to oppose the danger of aggression by Asian Communist countries," he said. "The most practical method is to develop our country and make...
After 51 hours in Viet Nam, he was airborne again. He seemed genuinely moved by his meeting with the troops. "They make tears come to your eyes," he said. "There's a strength out there. If the political leadership can equal these men, we're going to bring this war to an end on the right basis, and before long." Of the South Vietnamese, he said: "They are going to make it." Saigon, Nixon observed, was not going to become "Ho Chi Minh City...
...Edward Kennedy had said in his attempt to explain his actions at Chappaquiddick, "this will be a difficult decision to make." Yet he considered the question of his political future for just four days before announcing last week that he would return to the Senate, seek another term next year and eschew any presidential bid in 1972. Although he had invited his state and, in effect, the nation, to participate in his decision, Kennedy made the choice quite privately. Then, instead of holding a briefing or press conference, he had the announcement mimeographed in his Boston office. Some skeptics doubted...
Though the astronauts will not make any public statements until after their release on Aug. 12, NASA announced that, at Armstrong's request, it is amending the record of his first words on the moon. Armstrong explained that the article "a" had apparently been lost in transmission back to earth. Thus his statement should read: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." The change reflected the humility of the first mortal to reach the moon...
...probes worked at incredibly high speeds. Once the Martian image was captured by their video equipment, it was rapidly translated into electronic signals of varying intensity representing 64 shades of light and dark. Those impulses, in turn, were beamed to earth in the binary language of the computer. To make one complete picture, the spacecrafts' equipment had to scan 665,208 points of light and dark, each of which was converted into six bits of computer information. That five-minute job involved more than 4,000,000 bits for each picture. The poky equipment on Mariner 4 needed...