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...classics for discoveries made during the unmanned Voyager spacecrafts' flybys of Saturn's moons. Craters on Mimas, for example, will be named for characters from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur; the recently photographed fissures on Enceladus, for those from the Arabian Nights; features on Tethys, for those from Homer's Odyssey. Yet even so seemingly innocuous a task can bog down in politics. The Soviets like to name newly discovered asteroids after revolutionary heroes. Last summer U.S. and West European astronomers countered by naming one after dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov...
...over the presence of Syrian SA-6 missiles in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Another was the failure of last month's Arab League summit in Fez, Morocco, at which Syria led the hard-line attack on the eight-point Middle East peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd...
...center of the squabbling at Fez, where Morocco's King Hassan II played host, was the eight-point peace proposal outlined last August by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd. The plan offers tacit recognition of Israel's right to exist in exchange for, among other things, a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Bitterly opposed by the Israelis, the plan was conceived by the cautious Saudis to achieve an Arab consensus...
Tough Saudi Arabian tactics hold down the price of crude
...years. Instead of long and bitter talks that ended in a deadlock over the price they should charge for oil, the OPEC ministers needed just nine hours and ten minutes to agree on a new base price of $34 per bbl., $2 more than the current rate for Saudi Arabian light crude but $2 less than the bench-mark level they have been using as a pricing guide since last December. Moreover, the oil producers said that the price would remain at that rate through...