Word: wiring
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NATO's European partners have always wanted American troops stationed on the Continent, where they would be hit by any Soviet attack and thus ensure that Washington would go to war. To support this "trip wire" theory, the U.S. vowed in 1955 that it would keep 250,000 troops on the other side of the Atlantic "as long as necessary" to guarantee European security...
From the middle of the wire-strewn mainstage you can spot about a dozen of them, hanging lights or spattering paint on flats, or plunging up to the elbows in papier-mache. Some are here because "I couldn't stand to look at my math homework anymore," some to get "comps"--complimentary tickets available to anyone who helps "put in" a Loeb production. Some settle down to fingerpaint the platforms and Grecian arches for two hours because they will deliver Shakespearean soliloquies from them in a few days, or because, like Peter Miller, they are the set designer...
...with wire dispatches...
...command cabin, had originally been scheduled to try the arm's gripping apparatus on a fixture in the cargo bay. But the trial was scrubbed because of problems with the arm's hand, known in NASAese as an "end effector." Eventually, the spider-web-like wire snare should be able to capture any satellite equipped with appropriately mated hooks. On this voyage, Truly will only guide the 50-ft.-long arm through various manipulations of its "shoulder," "elbow" and "wrist" joints. If the machinery jams when the arm is extended, one of the spacemen will have to climb...
...under the terms of the Camp David peace accords. The focus of the campaign is Yamit, an Israeli settlement of 2,500 situated on a strand of sand beside the Mediterranean. Settled six years ago, Yamit even now is no bigger than a college campus. Behind a 110-ft. wire-mesh antiterrorist fence that looks incongruous in such a peaceful setting, Yamit's residents have skillfully managed to turn their town into a blooming oasis of lush, neatly manicured gardens. Outside the community, a series of smaller farming settlements has prospered with the aid of the latest in irrigation...