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Iraq's Saddam Hussein has been able to withstand his losses with the help of nearly $30 billion in Arab economic aid over the past two years. In anticipation of a renewed Iranian military offensive after the rainy season ends next month, the Iraqi regime has mounted a broad diplomatic effort to improve Baghdad's ties with the West and buttress its position in the Arab world. Last week Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz flew to Paris on a multiple mission. He met with Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist Iranian...
DIED. George Bond, 67, chief scientific investigator and senior medical officer for the Navy's Sealab missions, which tested human capacity to live and work undersea; of heart disease; in Charlotte, N.C. Bond developed a process of saturating body tissues with a mix of helium and oxygen to withstand pressure. In the first two Sealab missions (1964-65), aquanauts spent nine days or more in a 57-ft.-long steel cylinder some 200 ft. below the ocean's surface. Observing from above, "Papa Topside" found that the men could function but became susceptible to the "breakaway phenomenon," suffering...
...covered over. Aboveground, a typical waste burial site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train; the Energy Department claims success testing a 150-ton railcar cask able to withstand crashes and fires. In the lengthy saga of nuclear-waste disposal, acknowledged a spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum, a trade group for the nuclear industry, "transportation could be the next big issue." Said David Berick of the Environmental Policy Center: "One of the reasons the bill went through...
Dense Pack depends on many calculations and assumptions, most of them untested and untried, perhaps happily so. If only one of them proved wrong (for example, that the U.S. can build silos and subterranean communications centers able to withstand the effects of a nuclear blast), Dense Pack might fall apart like a house of cards. And scientists are all too familiar with that law of Mr. Murphy: if anything can go wrong...
...doubt about any new weapons system, especially a nuclear one that cannot be put to the ultimate test except in a nuclear war. But with Dense Pack, the level of doubt is more than normal-and more than acceptable. Uncertainty on the American side about whether the MX could withstand and retaliate against a Soviet attack is just exactly what the U.S. does not need in its own defense planning...