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...comfortable when repeating familiar ideology, envisioning "the first beginning cracks, the beginning of the end" for Communism. On topical foreign policy questions, however, he seemed awkward and unsure. When he tried simultaneously to condemn yet to defend Israel's bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, he literally lowered his voice. In answer to one question, he made a serious error of fact-calling Syria's SA-6 antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon "offensive" weapons, even though they are defensive...
...avoid appearing in public or on television. Leaving campaign strategy in the hands of Premier Pierre Mauroy, Mitterrand spent his long workdays huddling with aides over economic reform plans and grappling with his first foreign policy crisis, the destruction two weeks ago of Iraq's French-built nuclear reactor by Israeli jets, an attack that he resoundingly condemned...
After only a year or so of operation, enough plutonium (about 35 Ibs.) could be generated in a small reactor to build two or three bombs of the type dropped on Nagasaki. The plutonium would be formed into a hollow sphere containing a small neutron source that might be made of radium and beryllium. The plutonium itself would be wrapped in a beryllium or uranium reflector, which helps contain neutrons and prolong the chain reaction. This shield would in turn be covered by a layer of TNT charges, the most critical aspect of the design. The charges would have...
...remains the barometer of world tension. From mud and straw shanties in India to plush villas in France, nervous people stash away Krugerrand coins or gold jewelry at the first sign of any political or economic unrest. Last week, after the Israel's attacked Iraq's nuclear reactor, the price of gold immediately shot...
...Southeast Asia to the offshore drilling rigs of North Africa and the North Sea, petroleum prices are being pruned, pared and sometimes slashed as exporting nations find themselves scrambling to hold on to customers. Not even last week's Israeli air attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor outside Baghdad did much to firm up the weakening price of crude. Though sporadic calls for an oil embargo of the U.S. echoed through the Arab world, petroleum prices stayed stagnant on the bellwether spot market, where much of the world's current excess is traded daily. At approximately...