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...wider, well-plotted world of skuldruggery and high technology. The new books cover the map from Cozumel to Copenhagen, the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea. Their post-Bondian hardware ranges from a Guppy-class submarine to the world's biggest tanker, the Dragon M-47 antitank rocket to the Soviet Dragunov rifle. In most cases, the hero is motivated by the heroin, but there is no shortage of sex, usually exotic and always dangerous. Seven sizzlers...
...yesterday, an Atlas-Centaur rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral and sent HEAO-2 into an orbit that mission scientists called "perfect ... right on the money...
...High Energy Astrophysical Observatory-2, an x-ray facility astronomers say may produce far-reaching advances in astrophysical research, had a successful launch at 12:24 this morning when it was boosted into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla, by an Atlas-Centaur rocket...
...goes according to plan, the HEAO-B will be launched from Cape Kennedy by an Atlas-Centaur rocket shortly after 12:23 a.m. Monday. HEAO-B has no back-up, so a safe launch is essential to the mission's success...
...completing the treaty's remaining 5%, that will require what U.S. diplomats call "end game trade-offs." One major example is the deadly accurate cruise missile, which the U.S. developed to offset ominous Soviet advantages in rocket size and power. Moscow had insisted that SALT II impose a 1,500-mile-range limit on cruises launched from planes; this would keep much of the Soviet Union beyond the weapon's reach. In September, however, the Russians indicated that they would drop this demand if a strict 360-mile ceiling were placed on the range of cruises fired from the ground...