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...extending aid to both Somalia and Ethiopia, even though the two were ancient enemies. The volatile Somalis were enraged at the Russians' perfidy and stepped up their support for the Ogaden rebels. Meanwhile, the Soviets have reportedly supplied Ethiopia with MiG-21s and MiG-23s, heavy artillery and rocket launchers...
Jimmy Carter walked over to a shelf in the White House last week and took down a plastic model of lethal U.S. and Soviet missiles; the Russian rockets were painted a sinister dark gray, the American ones good-guy white. Built to scale, the gray weapons dwarfed the white missiles, reflecting the Soviet Union's enormous advantage in rocket power. "Now you see why it's so important to limit these things," remarked the President with a smile as he presented the model to his guest, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...Poverty is too well remembered as one in which benefits often trickled up to the so-called poverticians?the programmers, social workers and suppliers to the needy. Any massive program to stimulate the whole economy, in an attempt to bring down unemployment rapidly, would only give a rocket boost to inflation. The primary victim would be the underclass...
...attempted a huge step toward a distant planet and the interstellar space beyond it last week-but not without some unexpected difficulty. At Florida's Kennedy Space Center, an 1,800-pound spacecraft known as Voyager 2 was launched atop a Titan-Centaur rocket and aimed at Jupiter, 579 million miles and nearly two years away. Voyager 2 was hardly aloft, however, before it reported a malfunction in the boom that carries a key package of TV cameras and scientific instruments...
...Earth. Earthly images include slides showing human anatomy and a diagram of human conception, mathematical formulas, and a shot of Idaho's spectacular Snake River. Among the recordings: street sounds, the cry of a newborn baby, the hum of a string quartet, the roar of a Saturn rocket lifting off. Also included is a greeting written and read by President Carter. "This is a present from a small, distant world," his message begins. "A token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time...