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After bicycling 3100 miles on a cross country trip without experiencing much more than some flat tires and a scratch or two, a group of Harvard students raising money to fight world hunger were robbed of their cash, cameras, and repair equipment early Saturday while they slept in a Detroit church...
...Having already begun the transformation from an industrial economy to one based on gathering and disseminating information, the Japanese now hope to overcome age-old barriers of language and culture with intelligent machines: automatic translation devices coupled with systems that can dispense medical advice, prepare tax returns, design buildings, repair complex electronic equipment. In their vision of the future, fifth-generation computers will be delivery vehicles for the ultimate export products: the know-how and native intelligence of the Japanese people. -By Philip Elmer-DeWltt. Reported by Thomas Levenson/Tokyo
American military advisers, TIME has learned, traveled secretly to Iran in the summer of 1979. They test-fired two Hawk antiaircraft missiles for the Iranian air force and offered to repair Iran's Hawk defensive system. The Carter Administration also authorized some major U.S. arms manufacturers to continue sales of military equipment to Iran covertly. This, in turn, encouraged private arms dealers to continue supplying Iran. All official cooperation with Iran ended when the embassy in Tehran was seized. Carter impounded $300 million worth of spare parts that the Shah had paid for, and ordered a complete boycott...
...Powers yesterday rejected that notion, saying the structural jobs the University now plans to subcontract are "a completely different problem" than other maintenance work. While other maintenance work is speed throughout the year, the jobs in question are primarily outside repair tanks clustered in the warm weather months, he explained...
...satellite's television camera works, it will provide the first images from afar of the orbiting shuttle. After some seven hours of traveling alone, the satellite will be grappled on board by Ride. The demonstration is designed to reassure NASA that satellites can be retrieved for repair or servicing, thereby vastly extending their useful lifetimes...