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Armed with sophisticated Communist weaponry, the Yermonian army last week swept across the frontier of its southern neighbor, the peace-loving desert nation of Argos. While the Argosian army reeled back toward its coastal capital, Port of Palms, a U.S. Marine amphibious unit began steaming through the Sea of Bristol...
...nuclear-powered, hauling 20-mile-long islands of ice from the Antarctic* to parched coastal regions of South America and Australia. They calculate that as much as 60% to 70% of an iceberg would remain unmelted after a slow tow trip lasting as long as six months. Upon reaching port, the iceberg could be chopped up and melted. The estimated cost of iceberg water: only about 1% that of desalinated sea water...
...very easily anyway. So reveling in their new-found security, brine-bitten capos can be seen piloting sleek craft off Long Island, putting proudly into port in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Though they favor yachts, one captains a converted Coast Guard cutter, while another is suspected of navigating a lobster boat-long after the lobster season has ended. Not every mobster can afford to "suffer a sea change into something rich and strange." The less affluent Gallo brothers, still recovering from the decimation of their gang, have to be content to splash around in a swimming pool they have built...
...instead of the usual three and ballasted with 1,000 lbs. of lead to compensate for the resulting shift in the center of gravity. Astronauts Vance Brand and Don Lind, back-up Skylab crewmen, would pilot the craft to a rendezvous with Skylab and probably dock in an emergency port at the side of the space station (see chart). The three Skylab astronauts would then eject the disabled Apollo from the docking module to make room for the third crew, which NASA still optimistically hopes to send up in November...
...tide of opposition to France's atmospheric testing has been growing for months. In May the Australian Council of Trade Unions ordered all French goods coming into the country embargoed at the country's ports (it lifted the ban only occasionally to allow distribution of cargoes like Camembert cheese that threatened to befoul Melbourne's port). Mail service with France has been cut off, and at least one restaurant put a sign in its window announcing that it would not serve French customers. The International Court of Justice at The Hague had handed down a temporary injunction...