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...regional defense forces are still using captured U.S. arms, but regular units are equipped with Soviet weapons and ammunition. Moscow's aid, which the U.S. Defense Department estimates at $3 million a day, has furnished Hanoi with a wide range of sophisticated equipment, including radar, antisubmarine systems, two frigates and some submarines. The Soviets have also supplied a variety of antiaircraft weapons, including surface-to-air missiles...
Airplane! is about as funny as you want it to be If you go ready to laugh at sight gags--control tower operators playing pong basketball on radar screens--some genuinely racist humor--in the form on two men speaking "jive"--and endlessly repeated jokes--"Surely you must be joking." "I told you not to call me Shirley."--then you'll enjoy the film. But don't go expecting Woody Allen or even Mel Brooks--there's something very anticlimatic about this film after all the media hype. As in most films where the plot is the background...
...Party newspaper, has printed lengthy exhortations to conserve energy. Except at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, where many foreign flights arrive, jets of Aeroflot, the national airline, no longer use their own engines to taxi into takeoff position; to save fuel, they are towed into position by tractors. NATO radar bases report that Soviet air force training flights, already 30% below those of the U.S. and Europe, have been cut back even further...
...cover of the earth's nearest planetary neighbor has kept its surface tantalizingly hidden, Venus' veil is being lifted by a gifted robot. The Pioneer-Venus Or biter spacecraft has been circling the planet since December 1978, analyzing its atmosphere and scanning and rescanning its surface with radar. Last week NASA released the first renderings of these extraterrestial data, revealing a dramatic and awesome landscape still in the process of formation. Though 60% of the Venusian topography consists of flat rolling plains, it also includes four major highland regions, the highest being Ishtar Terra (named after the Assyrian...
...mission, and Secretary Brown was even more secretive on the subject at his press conference. Gradually, however, the outlines of the plan became clear. The helicopters were to have carried the commandos to a second staging site, named Mountain Hideout, just outside of Tehran, but concealed from Iranian radar and defense forces by mountains. Some of the rescuers were to slip into the embassy compound in trucks?although where the vehicles would come from remained a mystery. At a prearranged time, the rescuers were to disable the unsuspecting guards, presumably with gunfire and some kind of chemical weapon, just...