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Director of the Office of Management and Budget David Stockman was a breath of fresh air in Washington [NATION, July 22]. His candid Stockmanisms broke through the murky atmosphere of partisan political rhetoric like rays of sunshine. The clarity of his words and position gave hope to citizens who were tired of hearing horror stories about the deficit while watching its continued rise. Now that the Whiz Kid is leaving, the weather outlook is gloomy, and the chances for reducing the deficit seem bleak. Betty Driscoll Monkton...
...grown up between these two political adversaries. Kennedy has lifted anchor and is drifting in lonely but intriguing fashion beyond the old Senate "club" and the Democratic Party's reflexive partisanship. He can be as tough as boiled owls about Reagan's policies ("cold unfairness") but in the same breath admiring of the man ("Ronald Reagan has restored the presidency as a vigorous, purposeful instrument of national leadership...
...sickness and antiseptic, stale air, pale faces, hushed voices and old people. Lots of old people. Recently, however, at hospitals like Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Los Angeles, a new group of patients has appeared. They are men in their 20s and 30s, wan and fragile, short of breath and just barely clinging to life...
Your article reflects optimism about a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars by 2010 [SCIENCE, July 29]. This is commendable and desirable, but do not hold your breath waiting for it to materialize. One of the major reasons for my pessimism is that unlike the Soviet leadership, the U.S. Administration changes hands every four to eight years. This is not conducive to long-range planning. With new Administrations come policy shifts, fluctuations in funding and changes in attitude toward the U.S.S.R. If we were not able to go to the Olympics with the Soviets, how will we ever...
Morocco's King Hassan II was somber as he stared across the octagonal conference room of his palace in Casablanca last week. In almost the same breath in which he declared open a summit meeting of the 21-member League of Arab States, the monarch deplored "the existence of vacant seats" at the first such gathering in three years. The brocaded chairs intended for Syria, Lebanon, South Yemen, Algeria and Libya were empty. Of the remainder, only eight were filled by heads of state. Most notably absent was Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, who was represented by Crown Prince Abdullah...