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...researchers currently earn as little as $100 a month. According to Lev Mukhin, a science and technology counselor in the Russian embassy in Washington, most scientists today have to hold two or three jobs to make ends meet. Just last month the head of one of Russia's prestigious nuclear-research centers wrote a letter complaining about his inability to get his projects financed or his workers paid, and then he shot himself to death...
...Adding insult to Mitterrand's already injured political fortunes, the mayors of Strasbourg and Colmar last week boycotted his formal visit to Alsace in order to protest the transfer of a planned nuclear-research facility from the area to Grenoble...
Begin's Cabinet may have been merely surprised, but the world was shocked when it learned the news. Using high-powered U.S. military technology with awesome efficiency, Israel had taken Iraq totally by surprise and destroyed that country's technological centerpiece, its nearly completed, $260 million nuclear-research reactor. The surgical strike, reminiscent of the pre-emptive air raids against Egypt in the 1967 Six Day War, was based on an Israeli perception that one of its most implacable foes would soon be making nuclear bombs. But, in removing that threat, the Israelis had done more than simply take international...
When Peres, at 29, returned to Israel in 1952, Premier Ben-Gurion appointed him to top posts in the Defense Ministry. For the next 13 years, he played the key role in organizing the Israeli Defense Forces, developed the nation's arms industry and nuclear-research program. He traveled abroad constantly to purchase arms and conduct delicate military negotiations. Peres quickly acquired a reputation as a canny, effective and realistic bargainer. His great coup came in 1955, when he brought off the Franco-Israeli military alliance, involving more than $1 billion in arms purchases from France that made possible...
This week Kosygin heads south in the company of Premier Georges Pompidou for a tour of the show places of modern French industry, including the Concorde supersonic-transport plant in Toulouse and the nuclear-research center at Grenoble. By coincidence, his trip will take him through precisely those areas of France where De Gaulle is weakest and the left strongest. If Kosygin keeps on singing his praises, that, at least, will please De Gaulle...