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...with the almost surreal serenity of the summit's site in the historic center of Venice. The statesmen were as enchanted with the beguiling city as countless ordinary tourists before them. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went for a brisk ride up the Grand Canal in his motor launch, the Ile de France. Thatcher, still clad in a flowing evening gown, stole out of her hotel at 2 a.m. for a stroll beneath the stars. Mindful of threats from the terrorist Red Brigades to disrupt the successive summits, the Italian government marshaled an imposing display...
...presidency, but a certain amount of opposition to him is building. While his skilled performance as Senate minority leader has won him the plaudits of G.O.P. moderates and even Democrats, he remains unacceptable to much of his party's right wing because of his support of the Panama Canal treaties and federal funding for abortions...
...from point to point." Just so, and generations of students have been unwilling to walk the tedious trail that might eventually lead to a career in the laboratory. The loss is society's, and the answer to the horrors of a Three Mile Island or a Love Canal is not clamping down on science, but training more and better scientists. This remarkable PBS series is a welcome attempt to answer that need. Science, it says, is not only the world's biggest game; it is also the most exciting...
Carter hears the message to be more cautious and restrained. "Anything that produces significant change will be met with resistance," insisted the President. "Change is risky. Its outcome is impossible to predict. Substantial forces are always marshaled on both sides. Had the Panama Canal Treaty been voted down, that would have been a major blow. It was risky. We had to take a risk going against the Moscow Olympics...
...through Arizona and Colorado, and farmers there are demanding a bigger share. Intense lobbying in Congress by white-water rafters and others has delayed for more than a year full use of the $341 million New Melones Dam near Modesto; other environmentalists are stalling plans for a 43-mile canal that would supply more water for the arid south...