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India, which captured the most territory in December, made a major concession in agreeing to return some 5,100 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory-all except a few strategic salients in Kashmir. Despite this good-will offering, India failed to win any firm concessions from Bhutto on the Kashmir question, which has so long poisoned relations between the countries. Pakistan maintains that the future of the predominantly Moslem state (pop. 4,600,000) should be determined in a plebiscite. India, which holds that Jammu and Kashmir's accession to India in 1947 is legal and final, wants to have...
SUNSHINE. Theoretically, the sun's energy ought to be usable, but no one is sure how best to collect sunshine and transform it into power. In answer, Aden and Marjorie Meinel of the University of Arizona have proposed a "solar farm" that would cover 5,500 sq. mi. of desert with rows of black steel bands. These would absorb the sun's heat and send it to large storage "batteries" of molten salt, which would power turbine generators. Cost of building a 3,000-kw. demonstration plant: $10 million. Despite the amount of land that such projects would...
...might well have passed muster if the tests had been properly performed. As far as emissions go, the engines differ very little from those in current models. The only new federal requirement is installation of a device designed to limit oxides-of-nitro-gen emissions to 3 gm. per mi. or less. The same system is already required on cars sold in California, though the emissions limit there is 3.2 gm. per mi., and Ford's 1972 engines met that standard -indicating that at worst the engines for the 1973 models are very close to satisfying the federal requirements...
...conditions that produced the rumbles of the 1950s have, if anything, worsened. The population density of the Southeast Bronx-500,000 people crammed into 5 sq. mi.-is among the nation's highest. Housing, health care, employment and education are woefully substandard. Fifty percent of the children under six have never been immunized against polio. Forty percent of the area's families are on welfare. More than 10% of residents between 15 and 44 are heroin addicts. Says one of Mayor John Lindsay's minority specialists: "The Puerto Rican experience in New York has been a total...
...slaughter. During the wedding that opens the film, the Don metes out favors and punishments; during the christening that ends it, his son and successor Michael pledges faith in God and renounces the devil while gunmen, acting on his instru tions, murder rivals all over the city. "Today," says Mi chael, "I took care of all family business...