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...nuclear package actually packed a punch equivalent to about 100,000 tons of TNT-a puny power in comparison with modern nuclear weapons. Yet it is also five times the explosive force dropped on Hiroshima. While a full explosion of the uranium 235 seemed technically impossible, the worst-case scenario of radiation damage was frightening. If Cosmos 954 had somehow survived re-entry and released all of its radiation in a city like New York, the death and disabling effect could easily have devastated an acre or more...
...pole vault, Geoff Stiles of Harvard duelled with Northeastern's Paul Grant all the way up to the 15 ft., 6 in. range, until Grant dropped off and Stiles went on to win the event with a mark of 16 ft., 0 in., in a repetition of the scenario that took place in the meet with Northeastern on January...
This visitation was hatched with Washington in mind; it was planned to feature a scenario of State Department spokesmen again castigating Israel as intransigent in refusing to evacuate "occupied Arab territory." There will also be attempts to set up American Jewry against the ungrateful and obstinate Israeli government...
...right." Arafat shook his head in silent acquiescence. Without Saudi backing, Sadat simply could not sign such a peace agreement and hope to keep his stature as a leader within the Arab world. In Cairo, however, some diplomats last week were speculating about the prospect of a more subtle scenario for either the Cairo meeting or Geneva. Egypt-with the U.S. as watchful monitor-would negotiate an overall peace with Israel on behalf of all the confrontation powers. Once a draft was agreed upon, Sadat would present it to an Arab summit. If they agreed, all would be well...
...committee's only target. It has challenged the claims by Psychiatrist-Writer Immanuel Velikovsky that the planet Venus was once a comet that swept close to the earth, causing flood, plague and other catastrophes in biblical times; his scenario violates a number of physical laws. In the committee's magazine, a twice-yearly publication called the Zetetic (Greek for skeptic), committee members have also knocked UFOlogy, biorhythms and astrology...