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...world. Last month the Kremlin expelled Newsweek Bureau Chief Andrew Nagorski, accusing him of unethical journalistic practices. The Soviets arrested several members of an unauthorized "peace group" that was founded in June to press for better relations with the U.S. And last week Yelena Bonner, the wife of dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, announced that "cruel persecution" had finally destroyed the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, an organization set up to monitor the Soviet Union's compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act signed by 35 nations...
DIED. Carl Braestrup, 85, physicist who sounded early alarms about radiation's dangers and co-invented the Theratron, a cobalt-therapy machine patented in 1953 and still used to treat cancer; of complications from a stroke; in Middletown, Conn...
...universe. Says he: "J.P.L. has done magnificent things in planetary exploration. I intend to seek the support of space scientists and do the best I can to continue that record of achievement." When he takes over from Murray on Oct. 1, J.P.L. space scientists will watch the physicist-general's opening moves as eagerly as they usually eye the heavens...
...smoglike cloud from the volcano has been spotted at scattered locations around the globe. At the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced by 40%, and volcanic dust has created garish sunsets over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Says Atmospheric Physicist James Pollack, of NASA's Ames Research Center, which has used U-2 aircraft to collect samples of El Chichón's dust: "This is the biggest volcanic cloud we have had in the last two decades...
...cloud covers more than one-quarter of the earth's surface and is constantly changing. Between the equator and 30° north, the debris has blocked out as much as 10% of the sun's total radiation. "That's very large," says Atmospheric Physicist John DeLuisi of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "That's very significant...