Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...providing electrical power in space make an agreement unlikely. The U.S. has not launched a nuclear-powered vehicle since 1965. Instead, it relies on solar cells for electricity for all purposes except shots to the moon or toward other planets, where the sun's rays are too weak to be converted into sufficient power. In the 18 times in which the U.S. has sent nuclear power packs into space, it has used a much less dangerous method than the Russians...
...time they successfully invoked fears of 1984-style invasion of privacy by electronic technology. "Public opinion is aroused when a central computer is proposed," says A.C.L.U. Privacy Project Director Trudy Hayden. "But this time, they're starting small, matching two little computer lists, affecting only the poor and the weak...
Japan. Tokyo's Cabinet Research Office aims to gather information about foreign countries' economic-policy intentions and industrial secrets. Political analysis is weak...
China. The General Administration of Intelligence operates mostly in Asia, Africa and in centers of Overseas Chinese. Technologically weak, but sound on analysis. Especially concerned with Soviet industrial development in Siberia...
...mistake of trying to head off a conflict while also maintaining their sponsorship of the oppressive regime of Premier Pol Pot in Phnom-Penh. But that could not work. Observes Don Tretiak, an American China watcher: "The Chinese should have been more careful about their Cambodian commitment. Supporting a weak but obstreperous ally is very bad politics." Now Peking fears that its deteriorating relations with Viet Nam will push Hanoi further into the embrace of Moscow. Worst of all, if the Vietnamese were to rout the Cambodians, a Kremlin-manipulated puppet regime could emerge in Phnom-Penh and tilt...