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Even the strong succumbed. Tulane Senior Andrew Hillery and his friend Patrick Vizard, both 22 and experienced duck hunters, went into the Louisiana marshes bundled in thermal underwear and parkas. "They were frozen in water that had splashed into the boat from the winds. They had to be chipped out," says Hugh Lambert, Vizard's brother...
...reprisal raid against the pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslim splinter group, known as Islamic Amal, which is believed responsible for the suicide attacks that killed 28 Israeli soldiers on Nov. 4, as well as 239 American servicemen and 58 French paratroopers on Oct. 23. Four Israeli warplanes, ejecting thermal balloons in their wake in order to confound heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, attacked a training camp and an ammunition dump belonging to the Islamic Amal militia...
NASA, meanwhile, had its own difficulties. Last week the space shuttle Columbia was still resting in its hangar at Florida's Kennedy Space Center following the postponement of its launch scheduled for Oct. 28. Officials suspected there were flaws in the thermal insulation on the nozzle of one of Columbia's two strap-on solid-propellant booster rockets. Similar coating on a rocket nozzle recovered from the previous shuttle flight in August turned out, on postflight inspection, to be just a hairline away from burning through. Some space officials said that if the rocket had fired only...
...prices. Nuclear plants now provide about 12% of Japan's electric power. The country at present has 23 nuclear plants in operation, and it has 19 more planned or under construction. Liquefied natural gas produces about 18% of total energy needs, hydroelectricity 19.8% and coal 2.6%. Oil-burning thermal plants provide only 46.6% of electricity at present, vs. almost 100% a decade ago. The Japanese are determined to push their alternative energy program through to success, and so far they are right on target. The country has lowered its dependence on imported oil for energy needs from...
...Soviets might resort to another ploy known as Pindown. By repeatedly exploding missiles high above the silos for several hours, they would create a blanket of floating debris, thermal shocks and high radiation that would keep the American missiles trapped in their silos. But the Pentagon replies that even if Pindown worked, which it doubts, the MXs could eventually be launched...