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...children growing up on the world's battlegrounds been the subject of such encompassing and penetrating exploration. Involved in the initial arrangements were TIME correspondents at bureaus in Great Britain, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. What their efforts made possible was a five-week, 25,000-mile odyssey by Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt to regions of the world long tormented by war. What he returned with was an intensely personal account of how children view life when it might explode before their eyes at any moment. The project began when Rosenblatt saw a TV clip of a crying...
...cost that could exceed $43 billion, the 4,800-mile Alaska-Canada natural gas pipeline will be the most expensive privately financed construction project in history, surpassing by far the $9 billion spent on the 789-mile Alaskan oil pipeline during the 1970s. Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill already approved by the Senate that could make the project the most controversial as well...
...Tour de France, and even Harvard, the slowest in the Ivy League in this respect, has a cycling team. Harvard's incipient cycling team is the brainchild of David K. Smith '58 development officer in the University Development Office. Smith is the current Massachusetts champion in the 25-mile time trial for males aged 45 or over...
...radioed the harbor master. The call was answered instead by Don Whiting, night manager of the restaurant they had left three hours earlier. Whiting launched a search, and at 3:26, the Coast Guard was called in. Soon after dawn, a guardsman spotted Wood's body a mile down current from the yacht and 200 yds. from shore. The empty dinghy, loaded with lifejackets, was not far away, bobbing in the waves...
...program continues construction of Trident submarines--which carry 24 missiles as opposed to 16 carried by Poseidon subs--at a rate of one per year, initially to house the Trident-I, which is also being installed in existing Poseidon submarines. The program will also develop a larger 6000-mile range Trident-II missile for deployment on Trident submarines in 1989. It will also deploy several hundred submarine-launched missiles beginning in 1984. Both the cruise missiles and the Trident-II missiles will be much more accurate than current submarine-launched ballistic missiles; in the event that our land-based forces...