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...designed in West Germany, that aimed three of the onboard telescopes at celestial objects. The precision of the IPS is equivalent to focusing on a dime two miles away. The $60 million device, however, had bugs in its computer software and would not track properly. There was a brief moment when Astronomer-Astronaut Karl Henize shouted, "Hallelujah, it looks like it's working!" only to watch it wobble off target. Conceded Henize: "That hallelujah was a bit too quick, wasn't it?" Later the astronauts jerry-rigged an arrangement to aim the three solar telescopes toward the sun in time...
...issue of diplomatic recognition did not come up in a brief, unscheduled meeting between Peres and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze later in the week. Instead, Shevardnadze quizzed Peres about the fate of specific Soviet Jews who had emigrated to Israel from the Soviet diplomat's native republic of Georgia...
...moves toward its climax with a mounting sense of catastrophe, but who will destroy whom, and how, remains uncertain until the final pages. Hansen writes as ably as anyone in the genre about the consequences of lust and yearning. For the nonprurient, the descriptive passages of lovemaking are kept brief...
...edge of war and a boy approaching adolescence, but he is too cautious with his material. He calls the book a novel, yet it has few of the elements usually associated with the form. A melancholy Edgar ticks off his experiences and observations; his mother, brother and aunt make brief personal appearances, while the father remains silent and remote. Even the Bronx is incompletely perceived. Granted that it is not New York City's most glamorous borough, it is home to the Yankees and one of the world's great zoos. Neither attraction appears in the book, understandable if Doctorow...
...eight hours, broken only by a brief working lunch, Shevardnadze and Shultz, along with their advisers, reviewed thick documents that laid out the rival positions of each country. No new common ground emerged. "The positions are like black and white," said one American present, "and it is hard to see a shade of gray." It was a disconcerting prelude to Shultz's meeting the next day with Gorbachev...