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...half the trucks it needs. The Navy now has 456 warships (down from 702 in 1972), and says it needs 600. That would provide for three new carrier battle groups, in addition to the present twelve, which would allow the U.S. to maintain a permanent presence in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean and the western Pacific...
...Yamal Peninsula is a barren stretch of perpetually frozen soil that extends like an icy finger from Western Siberia about 400 miles toward the Arctic Ocean. Temperatures fall to -60° C during the nine-month-long winter, and the only inhabitants are a few Russians and Mongolian reindeer herders. During Stalin's reign of terror, the Soviet Gulag penetrated the region. Beneath tundra and scrub forests lie the world's largest untapped, proven reserves of natural gas, estimated to total 26 trillion cubic meters...
DURHAM. N.C.--Three divers began a 36 day simulated ocean dive at Duke University Medical Center two weeks ago. The project, named Atlantis III, is expected to set a world record by simulating the pressure of diving over 2000 feet below the ocean surface...
...tour de force is a sequence in which the pitching of Napoleon's boat as he escapes his Corsican political enemies is crosscut with scenes of riotous action in the Paris Assembly in which the camera is made to rock as it does when it is on the ocean. Gance's experiments with quick-cut editing-split-screening, double-printing, creating images that register almost subliminally-prefigure a style that has only now come into fashion...
...Palisades, which they are offering for sale through the Coldwell Banker real estate agency (asking price: $1.9 million). Their activities, said Press Aide Joseph Holmes, were "remarkably like anybody else getting ready to move." Reagan wandered through the house gathering up belongings and taking long looks at the stunning ocean views. He also accepted possession of a white Arabian stallion, a gift from Mexican President José López Portillo that Reagan had trouble quieting because of the press of onlookers...