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Within 30 seconds of the nuclear blast last Wednesday, a phone rang in the control room 30 miles away. Soviet Scientist Viktor Mikhailov picked it up. He punched the air to register glee at receiving precise information on the bomb yield; the control room burst into applause. The underground test the group was celebrating, however, was American, held at remote Pahute Mesa, Nev. Seven Soviets were in the control room to gauge whether measuring devices accurately calculated how powerful the explosion had been...
Next month a U.S. team will similarly monitor a Soviet nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, U.S.S.R. The idea: to make sure that both sides can verify whether a test yields more or less than 150 kilotons. If the joint- verification experiment is successful, the U.S. and the Soviet Union could at last ratify two treaties that ban more powerful tests, and the world might be a tiny bit safer...
Escalante blames the film, says Principal Maria Elena Tostado. "He said the kids saw the movie so many times they thought passing the test was going to be as easy as the movie made it out to be. He said they didn't know it was so much hard work." A contributing factor: the distraction caused by endless visits from celebrities...
...advises patients to get a thorough physical before taking it and then see their doctors periodically. One reason: those who have cardiovascular disease and who also absorb the drug more easily than others may be at risk of developing an irregular heartbeat, among other side effects. None of the test subjects have suffered such serious problems, however, although some have developed such minor complaints as itching, scaling and blistering of the scalp...
Four days later, however, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit declared that a similar law in Ohio was unconstitutional. If either of the conflicting decisions is taken to the Supreme Court, it will be a further test of the Administration's strategy. In his two terms, the President has designated three of the nine high-court Justices...