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...porch," he will pull a ring that opens a storage area and exposes a mounted TV camera, which will relay to audiences on earth a view of his awkward progress down the LM's ladder. At the bottom, Armstrong will place his right foot in the bowl-shaped footpad and???by 2:22 a.m. Monday, if he is on schedule?plant his left foot firmly on lunar soil...
...weeks ago with requests for drafts from three of his speech writers and idea men, William Safire, Patrick Buchanan and Raymond Price. Nixon himself had read every previous inaugural address, picking as his favorites Lincoln's second inaugural, both of Wilson's, F.D.R.'s first three, the Kennedy speech and???surprisingly?the baroque oratory of Democrat James K. Polk. A favorite Nixon motto is "Forward Together," and Polk in 1845 chose compromise and unity as his basic themes. He deplored "sectional jealousies and heartburnings," entreating the competing factions of his day to "remember that they are members of the same...
Even so, if Communist negotiators are true to form, the weeks and months to come will bring well-rehearsed tantrums and tirades, dramatic walkouts and magnanimous walkins, endless impasses and???perhaps?sudden breakthroughs. The upshot could be a hopeless deadlock that would almost surely lead to a wider, more savage war. Or it could be a gradual phase-down in the fighting and, ultimately, peace...
What surely will temper Reagan is the job he will take on next January. The task of running the most populous state in the Union, accommodating the 1,000 new arrivals who pour in daily, satisfying California's insatiable demands for more schools, roads, hospitals and???not least?water, demands an activist Governor. However great the momentum of past programs, the impetus of growth in such states as New York and California has invariably proved greater. Actually, though he has promised to cut back on wasteful state programs, Reagan admits that his "creative society" will not come cheap...
...that. The current death-of-God group* believes that God is indeed absolutely dead, but proposes to carry on and write a theology without theos, without God. Less radical Christian thinkers hold that at the very least God in the image of man, God sitting in heaven, is dead, and???in the central task of religion today?they seek to imagine and define a God who can touch men's emotions and engage men's minds...