Word: globe
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...than the Soviet satellites. Big Bird can swoop from as high as 170 miles (for wide-angle views) to as low as 100 miles (for close-up shots). The KH-11 records images in digital form, rather than on film, and can beam pictures to ground stations around the globe for instant...
...White House hopes that the speech, which chastised the Soviets for mischief making around the globe, will also ease some of the pressure that Reagan has been feeling from both the West European antinuclear movement and domestic advocates of an arms freeze. However, the proposal is so ambitious-and so favorable to the U.S.-that it is likely to touch off a new round of debate about the feasibility, and even the sincerity, of Administration arms-control policy. At the same time, the far right is likely to criticize Reagan for proposing any diplomacy at all with the Soviets...
Drop your eyes down about an inch from the top of the standings on page 62 of the Globe. You'll find there mired about eight games from the top--the Orioles and the Yankees. These are the two teams who have basically dominated the division for the past 15 years or so, who fought it out so dramatically down the stretch in the last real season of baseball...
Denouncing Argentina's invasion of the Falklands last week, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher observed that "if actions like this were allowed to stand, there would be many territories the world over where people would fear the invader." Indeed, the globe is littered with hundreds of conflicting territorial claims. Many of these controversies, such as the Austrian claim to the Italian-held South Tyrol, lie happily dormant. Others are the source of sharp protests, active negotiations and open conflict. The outcome in the Falklands will thus be closely watched by those tempted to settle such questions by force...
...University of Chicago, where 850 people watched Anchor Ted Koppel in the flesh and half a dozen of his colleagues on monitors. The subject: coverage of foreign affairs. Correspondent John Laurence opened on a skeptical note, calling network correspondents "jet-age ambulance chasers." Koppel closed with a warning that globe-girdling TV technology has given Americans "the illusion that we are familiar with distant places and cultures...