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...designed the spacecraft and control its mission. They fear that U.S. ambitions in interplanetary space may be rapidly dwindling, but the President announced the inclusion of $40 million in start-up funding in the fiscal 1982 budget for VOIR. That is an acronym for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar mission, a new project that had been eagerly sought by J.P.L., along with an unmanned probe to intercept Halley's comet when it returns in 1986. So far the U.S. has refused to authorize the tantalizing mission to the comet. Said J.P.L. Director Bruce Murray after the President...
DIED. Laurence Marshall, 91, electronics entrepreneur who founded the Raytheon Co. in 1922 and built it into a diversified company that played an important role in the development of radar, the Hawk missile and the microwave oven; in Cambridge, Mass. Upon his retirement in 1950, Marshall fulfilled a lifelong interest in anthropology by taking his family on an expedition to study the Bushman of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, an adventure later recounted in The Harmless People (1959) by his daughter, Elizabeth, and The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (1976) by his wife Lorna...
...specific weapons, Reagan has criticized Carter's decision to delay production of the neutron bomb and cancel the B-l bomber. Carter contends that the cruise missile has made the B-l obsolete but he has, with some campaign fanfare, suggested that a bomber employing "stealth" radar-baffling technology may be built instead. Both candidates support the new MX missile, although they differ about how the land-based weapon should be deployed...
...same time, Raja'i hinted that the U.S. Government might have to meet certain conditions to free the hostages. U.S. radar planes in Saudi Arabia, warships in the Persian Gulf and military aid to Jordan, he said, were "obstacles to a solution." This was a marked softening of his remarks the day before, when he accused Washington of using the radar planes to gather intelligence for Iraq...
...raid is over. Strictly speaking, that may not be true, but since there is no difference between the alert and the all clear, there is room for confusion. Iranian Phantoms have put on a dazzling display of technical skill, swooping in over Baghdad at treetop level to avoid radar detection, dropping their bombs and hightailing it back to Iran before the Iraqis realize what has happened...