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...their frustration is growing at America's failure to conclude any deals. Last year, for example, Pentagon officials said they were ready to spend $10 million on a Topaz-2 space reactor, but Deputy Defense Secretary Atwood is said to have blocked the sale. He has also reportedly forbidden Pentagon officials to travel to Russia without approval from him or Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. NASA's attempts to approach the Russians, meanwhile, have been stalled by the State Department...
...Russian space expertise, services and hardware is clearly overdue, and Congress is putting pressure on the Administration to devise one. At week's end Atwood went to Capitol Hill to discuss the matter, and gave signs of relenting on some deals. The Defense Department's purchase of the Topaz, in fact, may be approved as early as this week. Says a senior congressional source: "Several of the top people are now aware they have...
...Topaz defined "kludges" as "what we call it when something breaks down and we just strap a wire to it to keep it working." The renovation removed more than 75 percent of the wires in the studio...
...Topaz, who estimated that the renovations cost "somewhere in the many thousands of dollars area," said the decision to renovate was made as much to raise station members' spirits as anything else. "At least half of the reason we got [the console] is for morale," he said. "We've been living in the Stone Age as far as equipment goes...
WHRB has more to look forward to in the way of renewal and repair, Topaz said. The station may soon acquire a digital-audio system to replace its reel-to-reel set-up, an additional microphone for one of the studios and a computerized system that would enable WHRB to do summertime shows without a disc jockey present...