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...acreage claimed by tenants, landowners are being compensated in bonds and cash, payments spread out over an eleven-year period; the U.S. Treasury will pick up at least 75% of the $727 million total bill...
...mission that would have fired the public imagination and severely tested NASA's engineering ingenuity: an eleven-year flight to the very edge of the solar system. On one "Grand Tour," the spaceship would have swooped by Jupiter and with a whiplike assist from that planet's powerful gravitational field, flown past the ringed Saturn and finally Pluto, the outermost planet. In another version, the spacecraft would have used a similar "gravity assist" from Jupiter to swing by Uranus and Neptune instead of Pluto. Scheduled for the late 1970s, the Grand Tours would literally have been once...
That kind of mission will be much less of a challenge than the Grand Tour. For one thing, it will not require development of the long-lived, self-repairing computer (TIME, Dec. 7, 1970) necessary for an eleven-year mission-a device that could also have had important earthly uses. Beyond that, as President Nixon himself has said, the Grand Tour would have "dramatically expanded" man's knowledge of nature and the universe. Perhaps the most eloquent argument against cancellation comes from one of the bitterly disappointed scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which would have managed...
...Your Essay on political prisoners [Sept. 6] sadly represents the compromising logic of American liberalism. By asserting that George Jackson's $70 robbery "scarcely Warranted an eleven-year sentence" and that court "reform has proved to be a regression in many cases," you seem to be clearly aware of the inequities facing black political transgressors. Unfortunately, you are willing to prolong these inequities rather than risk a rapid overhaul of their source -America's outdated political and economic systems...
...Your comment that "Even though he was a three-time loser, Jackson went to prison for a minor criminal offense, which scarcely warranted an eleven-year sentence," is a gross error which cannot go unnoticed...