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...Chernenko challenge: westward-looking, apolitical youth
...prototypical figure who has shambled through all the cracklingly intelligent, funny novels of Britain's Malcolm Bradbury, 51. He appeared as a department chairman undermined by the Beat Generation in Eating People Is Wrong (1960); as a writer-in-residence vainly trying to go American in Stepping Westward (1966); and as a bystander steamrollered by trendy, sociology-spouting radicals in The History...
...pilot sends out an IFF (Identification: Friend or Foe) radio signal to Flight 007 to see if it is a friendly Soviet plane. But the Su-15's IFF frequency can be picked up only by Soviet aircraft. The jumbo hums westward into the darkness, unaware that it is being interrogated...
...began late in the spring of 1982, when atmospheric pressure at the western edge of the Pacific inexplicably began to rise, while air pressure was dropping along coastlines in the Americas. The resulting pressure gap reduced the strength of the Pacific trade winds, which normally blow warm surface waters westward, away from the Americas. As air-pressure levels seesawed across the Pacific, the trade winds not only weakened but actually began to blow in reverse, and warm waters sloshed eastward toward the Americas. In some areas of the Pacific last December, the surface temperature rose...
...northerly and direct of the internationally recognized courses to Tokyo and Seoul. It would take him off the Soviet Union's Kamchatka Peninsula, about 30 miles from the Kuril Islands, which are claimed and occupied by the Soviets, then over the main Japanese island of Honshu, and finally westward to Seoul...