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...precisely nullifies terrestrial gravity) 930,000 miles from the earth. Its mission: to study the effect of the solar wind on the earth's magnetic field. Yet even as ISEE-3 sniffed at solar breezes, its flight director, NASA Aerospace Engineer Robert Farquhar, was plotting to divert it somehow toward a comet. "The craft was custom-made to measure plasma waves," he explains, "and that's exactly what you find at the back of a comet...
...limited to humanitarian supplies, such as food and medicine. Even defensive military equipment like radar is precluded in the House plan, though such items may be permitted in the Senate version. Restrictions on how U.S. aid can be used are largely technicalities, however, since the contras can now divert funds from nonlethal supplies to the purchase of more military goods...
...inspection provisions cannot prevent anyone from trying to divert nuclear materials. At best, they provide an alarm system if misbehavior is possible or has already occurred. The system's most important function is that it demonstrates good faith on the part of countries that have agreed to participate. Says a former I.A.E.A. official: "Safeguards are in a way similar to detente. They can only survive if there is mutual trust...
...launching a high-visibility crusade for tax reform, Reagan hopes to regain his political momentum and divert attention from a series of setbacks that began with his trip to the grave sites of Nazi soldiers at Bitburg. Congress is proving increasingly contrary: the House last week roundly rejected his compromise budget plan, restoring Social Security increases and cutting defense. Says one top aide: "If we didn't have a tax-reform project, we'd need to create one, just to get the President out on the offensive...
...ADVISORY Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), established in 1972 as an advisory body to Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation, essentially helps to divert the ever-present and ever-increasing criticism of the Corporation's investment policy. It was not formed, as is believed, to represent the concerns of the Harvard community. That fact became painfully obvious at the end of last week, when the ACSR abandoned any pretense of democratic practice...