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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the army-size units in Angola (20,000 troops) and Ethiopia (17,000 troops), there are contingents in Mozambique, the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Libya and Tanzania. A sprinkling of civilian technicians and medical specialists is also scattered in Algeria, Benin, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fidel Columbus and His Crew | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...branch of the National Council of Protestant Churches will pay between $500 and $600 to transport the tractor to Sao Tiago in May, he added...

Author: By Jaleh Poorooshasb, | Title: More Than 1400 Will Fast To Aid Development Plan | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

James Cornell, publications manager for the Center, says the combination brings together "all the various tools one needs to attack problems at the very limits." For Marc Davis, assistant professor of Astronomy, the tools include the grant-obtaining power of a Harvard faculty appointment, and SAO observing equipment in Arizona...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking It to The Limit | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

...grant comes through, as Davis expects, he plans to work together with a colleague on the SAO staff to develop a highly automated device to take needed data quickly and efficiently. For making actual observations, Davis plans to use the automated device with a telescope at an SAO observing facility...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking It to The Limit | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

...SAO has an observing station beneath the clear skies of Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, and HCO owns a station beyond the polluted skies of Boston, in the town of Harvard, Mass. The equipment at HCO's station includes a large, optical telescope and a radiotelescope--a movable disk 84 feet across for receiving radio waves from sources in deep space. A reflecting telescope composed of six 72-inch-diameter mirrors should go into operation at SAO's Arizona station this summer, although in Fall 1975 completion of construction was expected by Fall 1976. The six mirrors, focused together by computer, will...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking It to The Limit | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

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