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...that would lead to independence for East Pakistan." But India, he adds, was too impatient to accept so gradual a solution. In August, "nonaligned" New Delhi aligned itself with Moscow by signing a Soviet-Indian Friendship Treaty. "With the treaty," writes Kissinger, "Moscow threw a lighted match into a powder keg." By November, when Mrs. Gandhi visited Nixon in Washington, rumors of an India-Pakistan war were rampant...
...much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse a gathering explosion at home. The May 4 killing of four students at Kent State University by rifle fire from Ohio National Guardsmen proved to be a match thrown into a powder...
With a wh-o-o-o-sh!the air hose sucks up and implants the charge, millions of ammonium nitrate pebbles soaked with fuel oil from a black cauldron near by. "We call 'em 'prills,' " Burns says, emptying another sack of the explosive powder into the cauldron. The prills look like a pile of granulated soap particles and feel rather like raw tapioca...
Geologist Gary Raines reached that conclusion in 1977 when he studied images of a 13,000-sq.-km (5,000-sq.-mi.) section of the Powder River Basin in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana, taken from 920 km (570 miles) above the earth. He noted that clusters of medium density sagebrush on the photographic maps fell in the same area as known uranium deposits. Further study showed that this type of vegetation pattern coincided with the kind of sandy shale rock formations that often accompany uranium deposits...
...This is only a geological mapping tool," he says. The technique has not yet uncovered new uranium deposits in the Powder River Basin, but Raines believes it may help to identify minerally rich areas in other parts of the- U.S., which private industry could explore...