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...that provoked major skirmishes along the Ussuri River frontier in 1969. The Soviets have important reasons to seek a reduction in tensions with China. Faced with domestic economic strains and a dangerous hemorrhaging of resources in Poland and Afghanistan, Moscow may want to limit pressure along the 4,200-mile-long border with China, which is now defended by 46 Soviet divisions...
...pressurized workout at this weekend's pro/celebrity race during the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif. Montana, 25 has been behind the wheel of a Toyota Celica, running practice laps at California's Riverside International Raceway. Among the varied competitors scheduled for the 21.3-mile race are: Actor Robert Hays, Rock Star Ted Nugent, Race Drivers Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser and fellow 49er Linebacker Jack ("Hacksaw") Reynolds. Racing on the same track as pros like Unser and Jones, says Reynolds nervously, "is like putting a college freshman out on the field against...
...Peninsula-and spearheading a new role for the U.S. in the Middle East. There was a brief delay when it was discovered that the soldiers, like careless tourists, had forgotten to fill out Israeli immigration cards. Finally, clutching their M-16 rifles, the men set off on a nine-mile march within view of the majestic rust-colored Sinai mountains to their new home, a base camp just south...
...troops were the largest contingent of the roughly 2,600-member Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) that will police a 300-mile-long zone between Egypt and Israel starting April 25. On that date, Israel will fulfill a key provision of the Camp David peace agreements by returning the remaining 7,490 sq. mi. of the Sinai that it has occupied since 1967. Even as troubles flared in the West Bank, and as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak continued to dodge an invitation from Prime Minister Menachem Begin to visit Israel (with a mandatory stop in Jerusalem, which Mubarak wants...
There was also considerable admiration. More so than many of the U.S.S.R.'s previous planetary probes, Venera 13 and 14 seem to have performed extremely well. Starting on their four-month, 185-million-mile journeys within a week of each other last fall, they approached Venus in late February, separated from their mother ships and drifted under parachute through the planet's dense carbon-dioxide atmosphere, blasting winds and corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid to touchdowns east of a mountainous region called Phoebe, just south of Venus' equator...