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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contain the West Fork holocaust by bulldozing a line in its path. Smoke jumpers, some of them imported from Montana, parachuted into the forests with digging equipment; six converted B-25 bombers dropped chemical retardants on the fires. 150 Years to Grow. Normally, rain controls the blazes that start each summer, but this has been an extraordinarily dry season for Alaska. Chicken, for example, has had no rain since early May. Though lightning started most of the blazes, the woods are so parched that any ignition will do. The Goldstream fire 30 miles west of Fairbanks was started by sparks...
...Twelve years ago last month, Brigadier General Bernard Schriever went to Inglewood, Calif., to start the Air Force's then-secret Western Development Division, a title roughly as revealing as that of the Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb. Schriever's mission was to turn the drawing-board concept of a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile into lethal reality-and fast. Intelligence estimates showed that the Russians had powerful rocket boosters that might enable them to get a commanding weaponry lead over...
Jusuf was charged with just about everything, from having six wives-two more than the Islamic law allows-to embezzling $10 million from the country's treasury. But the intent of the trial seemed broader than simply bringing Jusuf to justice. It apparently marked the start of a campaign by Indonesia's new rulers to undermine Sukarno's in fluence by linking him to his ministers' misdeeds. For one thing, the prosecution charged that Sukarno had encouraged Jusuf to use his influence with importers to collect "contributions" for Sukarno's Fund of the Republic, which...
Like their East German counterparts, many of the refugees are simply fleeing Communism, despite all the recent political relaxation in Eastern Europe. Others merely want to escape nagging wives or mothers-in-law. Still others may be seeking adventure or a fresh start. All have one thing in common: they are not afraid to take a chance...
...countries will have permitted more than 750,000 of their people to visit the West. Despite careful screening, some 35,000 of them will have defected. "One emigrant in a party is within the allowed margin," says an Eastern European tour guide. "When you lose six or seven, they start asking questions." Of 17 Hungarians who visited Stockholm last May, nine stayed behind. On a tour of Greece this summer, the Rumanian State Opera lost a soprano, a ballerina, the first cellist and a violinist...