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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approached a number of third countries, asking them to intercede with Hanoi on the P.O.W.s' behalf; among them are Sweden and the U.S.S.R. Sweden, which has diplomatic relations with Hanoi, has made cautious overtures, but has shied away from accepting a role as a neutral site for the internment of P.O.W.s, which the U.S. would like it to do under a Geneva Convention provision. The Communist countries generally express sympathy but contend that the U.S. must work the problem out directly with the North Vietnamese. Since December 1968, the Soviet Union has served as a conveyor belt for packages...
From a secret border site somewhere north of the Thai village of Mae Sot, a clandestine radio transmitter last week beamed an urgent declaration into the purple mountains of Burma. "Ours is no hasty, ill-considered decision," said the tape-recorded voice. "For months after my release from jail I pondered the problem. Recourse to arms was personally distasteful to me. But in the end, we decided to fight...
Goldwasser played an integral role in the development of the Laboratory the largest of its kind in the world and provided leadership during a touchy housing controversy which evolved from land acquisition for the laboratory site...
...did?to the extent of an Army captain named Clyde W. Jennings of Lynchburg, Va., a handbag salesman in civilian life. Arie Beall gave them a big bang-up wedding in Pine Bluff, and they settled down in New York City's Forest Hills, known Before Martha as the site of the national tennis championship matches. But Clyde was on the road a good deal, the marriage failed, and they were divorced after eleven years. Their one child, Jay, is now a 23-year-old second lieutenant in the Tank Corps...
...long lunar night, the Russians will probably power down the vehicle, allowing it to "hibernate" until it can again draw energy from the sun. If it survives the extreme cold ( -250°F.), Kaminski predicted, it might well resume its explorations, eventually traveling hundreds of miles from the landing site-provided no other calamity befalls it. The Russians themselves were not inclined to make any risky predictions. But they did say that in the future more advanced robots-so-called planetokhods-would explore not only the moon but more distant landscapes on Mars, Venus and Mercury...