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Intelligence analysts do not believe that all the new Soviet satellites are still in orbit. While their U.S. counter parts have longer life spans, most Soviet spycraft cannot sustain their low or bits for more than two weeks. As a result, the Soviets tend to launch more satellites more frequently than the U.S. When political crises arise, Moscow increases its output of satellites. During the 1973 Middle East war, the Soviets launched them at the rate of about...
...designs its satellites to stay in orbit for months or even years, and to perform a greater variety of functions. The U.S. currently has at least two photographic systems orbiting over the South Atlantic, the twelve-ton Big Bird and the newer KH-11. The systems are more sophisticated than the Soviet satellites. Big Bird can swoop from as high as 170 miles (for wide-angle views) to as low as 100 miles (for close-up shots). The KH-11 records images in digital form, rather than on film, and can beam pictures to ground stations around the globe...
Haig last week told a gathering of business executives that Castro was "agonizing" over whether to stay in the Soviet orbit, which would seem to be a substantial overstatement. But Haig and his aides believe that the way to detach Castro from the Soviets, if there is one, is to tighten the American pressure that has isolated Cuba from the rest of the hemisphere. "Whenever we have sat down with Cuba in the past, it has cost us dearly," one ranking U.S. official argues. "The minute we agree to one small concession, they turn around and tell the world...
...music, Court pulses with such energy that its precise choreography blurs. A theatrical, sinewy Elie Chaib and the cool, correct Carolyn Adams unleash steps that leave dancers in the audience breathless. All the Taylor signature movements are concentrated here: performers extend into precarious postures, arms and hands arc into orbit, leaps become new formations in midair. Few works in the current dance repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well: modern dance has risen from the floor-where it lay in defiance of ballet-to employ an immense treasure of movement and lyricism...
...officially denied it, Argentina's generals apparently got some help from an influential friend last week. As the British fleet steamed toward the Falklands, its movements were reportedly shadowed by Soviet trawlers and reconnaissance planes, which were flying out of bases in Angola. Soviet spy satellites in polar orbit kept a watchful eye on the disputed archipelago. Overlooking the problems of ideology, the Communist superpower was said to be passing on the resulting intelligence to the right-wing military dictatorship in Buenos Aires, apparently hoping to cause Britain and the U.S. as much trouble as possible...