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Such near "real time" observations are a giant step forward in satellite tracking. Until now, the U.S. has been relying on standard telescopic techniques using Baker-Nunn cameras, which provide fast, short-exposure pictures of wide swatches of the sky. The optics and the film have been vastly improved over the years, but each film strip must still be chemically processed and tediously analyzed, which can take an hour or more...
...draft." But other feminists, including Eleanor Smeal, the current president of NOW, refused to link the draft with passage of the ERA. Said she: "We are full citizens, and we should serve in every way." In a similar vein, the Atlanta chapter of NOW urged Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia to support "only that legislation which would require draft registration for persons of both sexes...
HAWKS LIKE Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) love it. For Nunn and those with similar beliefs, Carter's tough line reminds them of an America whose embassies were treated with respect (or fear), whose foreign policy was determined from a position of strength, and whose influence usually determined the course of world events...
...Service System, Carter will have to go to Congress, where the issue of registration is already sharply dividing opinion even within parties. Democratic Representative Elizabeth Holtzmann of New York said the President should "get tough with our allies, not our young people." On the other hand, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia declared that registration would "demonstrate a degree of will that has been lacking in this country since the Viet...
Roland McElroy, a spokesman for Nunn, said that the senator supported registration, but hoped the draft would not be necessary...