Word: bushing
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TWENTY years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first walked on the moon, President Bush now wants the U.S. to return there. His plan calls for the establishment of a permanent lunar base, which would serve as a way-station for an expedition to Mars, and eventually as a stepping stone for further exploration of the solar system...
...America should never stop seeking distant frontiers," Bush tells us. "We dream of distant shores we've not yet seen... A dream to be realized by future generations must begin with this generation...
Furthermore, it is probably no accident that the president's chief rah-rah boy, Vice President J. Danforth Quayle himself, is reportedly the driving force urging Bush to return to space. Quayle, whose scientific background is questionable at best, has in the last year raised to new heights the dominance of image over substance in American politics...
...Bush's plan sounds suspiciously similar: a gung-ho attempt to capitalize on a sense of national pride without careful consideration of the practical benefits or the alternatives...
Although Jaruzelski has renounced his own election as head of state, it is he who will greet Bush, because the new mixed government has been unable to settle on a presidential choice. Bush said he planned "to inspire but not to incite" during his two-day visit. Yet last week in an interview with Polish journalists, he suggested that the Soviets unilaterally withdraw their 40,000 troops stationed on Polish soil; Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev called the idea "propaganda." Bush has vaguer ideas about how to lend Poland more practical help, but aides warn that any U.S. plan...