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...ambition. But the root cause was Ben Bella's drive toward absolute power at the expense of his onetime, rebel comrades in Algeria's struggle for independence. Stronghold of the revolt was fabled Kabylia, a sweep of razor-spined mountains and deep gorges east of Algiers (see map). Populated by 1,000,000 fiercely independent Berbers who call themselves imazighen (free men), Kabylia was overrun by successive invasions of Arabs, Romans, Vandals, Spaniards, Turks, and finally the French -but it has never been totally subdued. No Algerians fought more heroically in the 1954-62 guerrilla war against France...
Eyes on the Sea. Litton has its share of space projects: it made the first space chamber and spacesuit, is making a relief map of the moon so that astronauts will know what they are in for, has created a wind tunnel that simulates the problems of re-entry by speeding up gases. But Thornton is convinced that "there isn't room in space for all the companies trying to get there," has turned the company's eyes downward into the sea. Ingalls has five contracts worth $145 million to build the Navy's new nuclear-powered...
...Libya also joined the air blockade. Fortnight ago S.A.A. inaugurated a carefully prepared, out-of-the-way alternate route around West Africa's bulge, via Brazzaville (which so far has not joined the ban), Luanda, capital of Portuguese Angola, and Las Palmas in the Spanish Canary Islands (see map). The "apartheid route" takes about 900 miles and two hours longer to Europe, costs an estimated $3,000 more to operate each way, so that S.A.A. may well be hard pressed to preserve its share of the lucrative European market as well as last year's handsome...
...continental U.S., and its important cities are scattered hundreds and thousands of miles apart. To make matters even more mobile, Brazil has not one capital but three: the political capital of Brasilia, the cultural and communications capital of Rio, and the industrial capital of São Paulo (see map). Few business deals or political maneuvers can be arranged without touching all three bases...
...Diamond had fired more than 1,000 rockets deep into the atmosphere above White Sands. Probing high above the maximum altitude of sounding balloons, his investigative missiles dropped metalized parachutes carrying temperature-measuring devices and providing tracking radars with easily detectable targets. By charting their drift, Diamond hoped to map the weather through which the U.S. must fire its growing family of space vehicles...