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...disputed area is a 3,500-sq.-mi. stretch of the Rann of Kutch, a desolate stretch of salt flat and sand dunes that is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea between the two countries and inhabited chiefly by flamingos and wild asses. Pakistan and India fought a number of sharp engagements in the Rann in early 1965, but agreed to submit the conflict to binding international arbitration before a larger border war broke out a few months later over Kashmir. The tribunal turned down Pakistan's bid for the area...
Lower-altitude explosions in the atmosphere would be even more disastrous, Lapp calculates. The detonation of a ten-megaton ICBM by an intercepting Sprint at an altitude of 50,000 feet would produce second-degree skin burns in people over an area as large as 2,000 sq. mi. and cause dry paper to ignite over an area of 3,000 sq...
...Pueblo and her kin prowl the international waters off China, North Korea and the Soviet Union, Russian trawlers are stationed off California, South Carolina, Florida's Cape Kennedy, Guam and Alaska. A Soviet spy ship dogs every move of U.S. aircraft carriers on "Yankee Station," the 45,000-sq.-mi. area of the Tonkin Gulf from which American air strikes over North Viet Nam originate, flashing alerts to Hanoi. Other Russian ELINT ships shadow the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean...
...rather than an operating man, has introduced just about the tightest cost controls in the auto industry-even while approving major new spending for additional facilities. In the past three years alone, Chrysler has appropriated $798 million for new plant and equipment. Space has been increased by 14 million sq. ft., or 30%, and Chrysler is making more and more of its own parts, instead of depending on outside suppliers...
...inch hole with the spacecraft's mechanical arm and claw, then use the arm to put the jewel box in the hole. By bombarding the claw-dug moon material with alpha particles and measuring the speed and number of the rebounding particles, the 8-in.-sq. box could identify the chemical composition of substances beneath the moon's surface. Contamination by material from other parts of the moon and from meteorites would be avoided...