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...Nagasaki hastened the end of World War II but left all nations terrified by what would happen if these weapons?to say nothing of their immensely more powerful successors, hydrogen bombs?were ever again used in anger. In the 1950s it was common for American children to practice air raid drills at school, climbing under their desks while instructors coached them not to look out the window at the fireball if it came. Many went home and saw the fireballs in their dreams. When the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962, instead of hiding under their desks...
...abundant, but unsurprising, evidence of Soviet support for SWAPO. The guerrillas have been waging a bush war for 15 years to win independence for Namibia, or South West Africa, a territory still administered by South Africa in defiance of United Nations resolutions. According to the South Africans, the latest raid was a response to the gradual stockpiling of mostly Soviet arms and equipment to replace those lost in previous South African forays. Among the spoils: 90 Soviet-designed AK-47 assault rifles, several SA-7 missiles and hundreds of grenades and land mines. In addition, the South Africans captured...
...South African raid came at an awkward moment for the five Western "contact states"-the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Canada-that began talks in London last week to iron out final problems in the first phase of a settlement that would guarantee Namibian independence. The main stumbling block: SWAPO'S reluctance to go along with complex election procedures designed to protect Namibia's 90,000 whites (out of a population of 1 million...
...show of South African aggressiveness was sure to complicate the negotiations further, though Pretoria denied the raid was deliberately timed for that purpose. In Washington, the State Department stressed that the raid "underlines again the urgency of moving toward a settlement on the Namibia issue." But even Administration officials conceded that Secretary of State Alexander Haig's hope for a settlement by the end of this year was unduly optimistic...
...fields. Post-Viet Nam cutbacks in defense procurement sent enrollments in engineering schools plummeting. Though that is now changing, the number of graduates is still far too small to handle the projected demand. Executives at Eaton Corp.'s AIL Division frankly admit that their company will have to raid other electronics firms to find the engineers and computer experts needed to make controls for B-1 bombers. Asserts Economics Professor P.M. Scherer of Northwestern University: "This means either a bloody battle to divert engineers from other businesses into defense, or a very slow process of adjustment...