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...only a tiny patch of sky during the next six hours of darkness. And the following day, at the nearby University of California campus in Berkeley, Physicist Richard Muller, like a seer divining entrails, scrutinizes the new batch of video recordings from Lafayette. He seeks a sign of a dim star that many scientists think does not exist: Nemesis, the death star, a possible companion...
...this sounds dumb, it is because Foreman wants it to; his humor is self-effacing. He is neither dim nor punch- drunk. He has a sense of pride and confidence that seems to accompany enormous physical strength and the conviction that one is doing something right (financial solvency might play some part in this cheerful outlook as well, that and extremely early retirement). In any event, all Foreman wants to do is save souls and help young boys out of the gutter, his admitted childhood playground. "I saw some of the fellows I used to drink with standing around...
...Kremlin predictably took a dim view of developments on Capitol Hill. "One gets the impression," wrote Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to a West German peace group, ". . . that they need these (arms) talks as a screen for carrying through their military programs. Appropriations of millions of dollars are being pushed through for the manufacture of new batches of first- strike MX missiles...
...across the Atlantic with her a month ago and constructed for Reagan the first flesh-and-blood portrait of his new adversary. The thrust of Thatcher's counsel was that Gorbachev, while still a Soviet and a Communist, was fresh and intelligent, a potentially major improvement over being dim and dying. The Prime Minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true...
...must for us and a must for the Arabs. Whoever looks at modern technology and at the results of past wars should come to the only sane conclusion--which is to solve the problems diplomatically and peacefully. Even if someone tells me, 'Look, your chances are very dim,' I wouldn't change my conviction or my optimism. If you lose optimism, you're out of business...