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Gawking in Gaza. For Israel's civilian planners, the new territories that so please the army are wildly diverse in prospects and problems. Sinai is a vast empty space, valuable chiefly for the oil wells south of Suez, as a buffer against Egypt and an air route to the 14 tourist hotels at Elath. Syrian land, too, is largely deserted-abandoned by some 80,000 inhabitants who fled the Israeli advance. Gaza, however, constitutes a monumental nightmare, with its 330,000 Palestinian refugees in stucco and mud-hut camps, plus an impoverished civilian population of 100,000. And though...
Covering the Moscow air show last month, most of the Western press reported that Russia had unveiled six new military aircraft-not a remarkable showing. U.S. and British intelligence made the same estimate. But in 35 pages of text and photos, McGraw Hill's Aviation Week & Space Technology proved them all wrong. The magazine's eagle-eyed reporters had spotted twelve new Soviet planes, some of them comparing favorably with U.S. models. The findings led Editor in Chief Robert B. Hotz to warn that the Soviets are "devoting an increasingly large effort to developing hardware and tactics...
Russian race to the moon, man's most useful achievements in space have come as the result of an unsung project started in 1964: the U.S. Orbiting Geophysical Observatory series. Last week the fourth OGO satellite, launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 28, was buzzing along in polar orbit without a hitch...
Among OGO accomplishments: map ping the earth's magnetic field; plotting the puzzling bursts of radio noise from Jupiter; and revealing a surprising boundary layer of ions (charged sub atomic particles) some 16,000 to 24,000 miles out in space. By continuously transmitting such evidence, OGOs have given scientists an unprecedented blue print of the earth's environment...
Incredible Victory will not replace Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's superb military analysis of Midway (Volume IV of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II), but as a you-are-there reconstruction it deserves shelf space alongside...