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...NATO part of the zone of the interior, a rear area, is now within the battle zone." Concern filters down to officers at sea with the fleet. "There is no feeling now of being on a second team," says Captain John E. Hansen, skipper of the 62,000-ton carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt. Says Commander Richard Hopper, who heads the Roosevelt's 75-plane air group: "This used to be a sunshine cruise. Pilots volunteered from here for Viet Nam. Now the action is here...
...defend itself against the Russian missiles, the Sixth Fleet has patched together new responses in recent months. Two 240-ton patrol gunboats superpowered by jet engines have been transferred from Viet Nam as an experiment. The gunboats move so swiftly (top speed: 40 knots) that their crews must be strapped into their stations. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., who is Chief of Naval Operations, has dubbed them "triple trailers" because they are assigned to lurk behind the Soviet vessels that trail U.S. ships...
...race to land men on the moon, the Russians have been proclaiming the importance of orbiting space stations-as platforms to survey the earth, to scan the heavens and eventually to launch manned excursions to the planets. In April the Soviets lofted Salyut, an impressive, 171-ton unmanned collection of scientific instruments (telescopes, spectrometers and other sensing equipment). But the odd, tubular-shaped laboratory, with its stubby, winglike solar panels, settled into such a low initial orbit that its lifetime was reckoned at only a few weeks. Ground controllers eventually raised the orbit a bit, thereby extending Salyut...
Very Bright Flash. Last week in a second attempt to man the station, the Russians launched Soyuz 11. Equipped with improved docking mechanism, the 71-ton spaceship rendezvoused with Salyut after 24 hours. With Test Engineer Viktor Patsayer, 38, leading the way, the cosmonauts feigned surprise upon entering Salyut's large, living-room-size interior, complete with instrument panels, separate compartments, kitchen and housekeeping equipment and even a small library. "This place is tremendous," said Dobrovolsky. "There seems...
...illegal practices. Indeed it is probably fair to say that much of the high-level corruption in Viet Nam today can be traced directly to the complicity of Americans. Last April, for example, a Vietnamese minister asked a U.S. aid official to sign an export permit for 22,000 tons of copper (price: $1,000 a ton), claiming the copper came from generator wiring picked up in Cambodia. The official signed the paper, thereby testifying that the copper did not consist of brass casings. The Criminal Investigations Division decided otherwise; it confiscated the shipment and arranged...