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...magisterial wrath: Ronald Reagan denouncing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" that had committed "a crime against humanity" when its fighters shot down a Korean jetliner; Yuri Andropov responding that the Reagan Administration had "finally dispelled" all "illusions" that it could be dealt with. At a baser level, crude vilification: American caricatures of Andropov as a "mutant from outer space"; Soviet comparisons of Reagan to Adolf Hitler...
...packet of articles distributed to scholars, journalists and other subscribers by the Israeli government monitoring service. Koch sent an indignant letter to Weinberger demanding that he publicly deny the conversation with the Saudis. Weinberger wrote back that "this 'socalled transcript' is a complete fabrication and a very crude attempt at disinformation." But Koch demanded a public disavowal. When Weinberger refused to reveal the details of a "classified diplomatic exchange," Koch gave copies of the letters to the press...
Treason, said Talleyrand, is only a matter of timing. So is being a big bad oil jompany. Six years ago when gasoline prices were heading skyward, the Justice Department started an investigation of oil companies for alleged price rigging of Persian Gulf crude flowing into the U.S. Later the case was narrowed to the four U.S. majors who owned and operated Aramco, the Arabian American Oil Co., which pumps Saudi Arabian oil. Last week the Government dropped the case, saying that the firms, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California, no longer had a major influence...
Such passages are needlessly crude, but they illustrate a depth and sensitivity to human possibility that few artists are able to so vividly capture...
Energy-beam weapons are still strictly experimental, but effective antisatellite (ASAT) devices could be deployed in droves within a few years. The Soviets have experimented since the 1960s with ways to destroy satellites. They have developed a rather crude space bomb that is launched into orbit, maneuvered to an enemy satellite and detonated. The U.S. ASAT missile, scheduled to be deployed in 1987, is considerably more sophisticated. The 18-ft.-long missile is carried 18 miles aloft by an F-15 fighter and fired directly toward a satellite; its foot-long nose cone, after homing in by means of eight...