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...nuclear arms control, Hart has well-informed, unhysterical ideas about strategic doctrine. He endorses the development of small, mobile missiles with single nuclear warheads as cheaper and more stabilizing than the mammoth, multiwarhead MX. He favors a freeze on nuclear weapons, but only halfheartedly...
...have to be placed in bulky canisters to keep them free of contamination. Instead the devices will be taken into the Payload Changeout Room, Slick Six's third movable building. This 158-ft.-high, 6,000-ton structure moves by rail toward the waiting assembly building, where a mammoth door of six panels, each measuring 30 ft. high and 130 ft. wide, will slowly rise, just like a garage door. Inside the building-within-a-building, the payload will be lifted into the orbiter's cargo bay and secured in niches that are custom designed for each piece...
...many advanced countries, nuclear power is a ticket to greater energy independence and national security. For developing countries, the sight of a mammoth reactor going up can also be a sign of industrial maturity and a source of national pride. To be sure, nuclear power faces the same obstacles abroad that it does in the U.S.: surging costs, construction snafus, protests from environmental groups, public jitters about safety, and problems with waste disposal. Moreover, the world economy is only beginning to recover from a recession that slashed demand for electricity and thus reduced the immediate need for atomic power...
...Snaking through the building are 150 miles of cable. Designed and constructed in Los Angeles, the center was disassembled and shipped to New York City, reassembled and tested in a warehouse for what ABC dubbed a "war games" dress rehearsal, then disassembled again and shipped by boat in 30 mammoth trailers to Yugoslavia. A few days after the Winter Games are over, technicians will begin breaking it down yet another time, so that it can make the return trip west for the Summer Games...
Mergers do not inevitably mean unfriendly takeovers. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell Group (1983 nine-month revenues: $60.7 billion), the mammoth British and Dutch energy producer, sought to buy out minority owners of its Houston-based Shell Oil subsidiary. Royal Dutch offered $55 a share, or $5.2 billion, for the approximately 30% of the U.S. firm that it does not already own. Said Sir Peter Baxendell, Royal Dutch senior executive: "This will enable us to invest and operate within the U.S. and abroad without any obstructions that might result from the presence of minority shareholders...