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...Soviet power and influence, partly in the form of Cuban troops, into the area in strength. Inevitably, Washington became concerned about the region's vulnerability to foreign influence. Kissinger wanted to prevent the whole of southern Africa from falling ? eventually, and almost by default ? into the Soviet orbit; he wanted to head off what appeared to be inevitable race war; and he wanted to create circumstances in which moderate black regimes would have a chance to endure. With these motives in mind, he met John Vorster twice this summer in Europe...
This potentially calamitous defect is now being remedied. The Bern relay station will soon be eliminated. To replace it, the system will rely on straight line-of-sight radio signals sent through communications satellites that the U.S. and the Soviet Union have hurled into orbit. The new switching and linking system should be virtually fail-safe. If diplomacy could be similarly fine-tuned, there would probably be no need for a hot line in the first place...
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...said John Glenn [July 12] was "the first man to orbit the earth." Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. Two others preceded him: Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov...
...Monsters. Once the first lander was safely down on Martian soil-thereby assuring at least partial success of the $1 billion, eight-year-long Viking project-scientists decided that they could afford to be less cautious with Viking 2, which is approaching Mars and scheduled to go into orbit on Aug. 7. Last week scientists were considering setting the second lander down in a rugged northern region that would be more hazardous for landing than Viking 1's site but potentially more interesting to geologists and biologists...