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...Iraqi helicopter floats in the valley below Mount Hazar Kanian, suspended in the morning light. Then it is gone, and a plume of rich, black smoke rises from the trees below. Young Iranian soldiers smile and wave from open trucks snaking up Kurdistan's dusty mountain roads toward the Iraqi front. "Down with Israel!" they chant. "Down with Russia! Down with America!" Some are not old enough to shave, but no matter. They are basij, the volunteers to whom the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has promised eternal bliss should they fall in battle. They beam at the soft thud...
Eventually Georges and Plume Books, a division of the Penguin Publishing Company, decided on one another. "We liked the fact that it [the book] was going to be written by graduates of the schools," says Luann Walther, the company representative, "which made it different from reference tomes that only give the school's official view of itself...
Although no one knows how much the book will make, everyone expects it to do reasonably well. "It was not done as a bestseller, but it was an interesting project and it's useful to some people," Georges says. Walther says that Plume Books has already received orders for the books...
...orbits were preprogrammed, and a reflector on the target rocket magnified its image 1,000 times. Nevertheless, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, SDI's director, argues that the $150 million demonstration proved it is feasible for a smart rock to locate a missile shrouded in its own exhaust plume and track other objects in space. Although he says Delta 180 fell within the strict ABM guidelines, SDI supporters argue that the broad interpretation is necessary to conduct the next such test, known as Delta...
Private Pilot Jim Campbell, flying at 1,500 ft. near Los Angeles, could not believe his eyes. Looking up, he saw a flash of light 1 1/2 miles off to the left of his aircraft. The fireball turned into a plume of black smoke, and Campbell watched in horror as a huge DC-9 airliner dropped its nose and rolled to its left. Twisting upside down, the wounded aircraft picked up speed as it plunged toward earth. "Oh!" shouted Campbell to himself. "Pull her up. Pull her up. Oh, pull...