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...behemoth is apparently part of a Soviet effort to develop long-distance, over-the-horizon radar. Its signal, which pulses ten times a second, is four times more powerful than the most potent civilian radio stations; sometimes it is augmented by a smaller transmitter near the Black Sea town of Nikolayev...
...Rabin). The arrangements outraged leaders of Israel's religious parties, since the ceremony ran so close to the Sabbath sundown that it violated the spirit of the approaching holy day. Only 20% of Israeli Jews are strictly observant, but the religious parties that represent them are a potent factor in the nation's politics. The largest of the groups, the National Religious Party, has been included in almost every Labor government coalition since 1948. Four days after the ceremonies, Rabin's government narrowly survived a vote of censure instigated by the tiny Aguda Israel Party, another religious...
...headed Latin America's largest Communist Party and holds the Order of Lenin, the Soviets' top peacetime decoration. "Corvalán is a splendid prize for the Kremlin," observed British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz. "He can now be set up as the highly visible and potent center for Communist opposition to the Chilean junta." Bukovsky, on the other hand, had proved to be a considerable embarrassment to the Kremlin as the symbol of harsh Soviet repression of dissidents...
...elections now scheduled for March 1978. If his clout is decisive in blocking the left from achieving a majority in Parliament, Chirac, the strongman of the majority, will overshadow Giscard and quite possibly unseat him in the 1981 presidential election. At the very least, he has already rekindled the potent mystique of Charles de Gaulle...
...Harvard Classics sport a 5-3 record and, though not as potent as last year, have been impressive in their victories...