Word: globe
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...regime of Hosni Mubarak, Sadat's successor? How to keep the Libyans at bay in the Sudan? Perhaps most important, how to speed up the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy? At stake is not only the influence of the United States in a crucial part of the globe, but, ultimately, issues of peace or war in the Middle East...
Instead, the committee announced a seemingly unassailable selection for the 1981 Peace Prize: the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for its aid to the "tremendous and increasing number of refugees" around the globe. The choice cheered refugee workers, who are not only keeping 10 million refugees around the world alive, but also are contending with attempts by most member countries, including the U.S., to stem the flood of refugees arriving on their shores. In his acceptance statement on behalf of the UNHCR, Commissioner Paul Hartling said of the award that the "voices of millions...
Also seriously threatened: VOIR (for Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar), a scheme to place a radar-equipped robot in orbit around Venus and map its cloud-covered surface. NASA officials are even talking about mothballing the Deep Space Network, a globe-girdling array of antennas that acts as a vital communications "downlink" with all U.S. unmanned planetary spacecraft. One effect of such a move would be to silence the transmissions of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is scheduled to pass by Uranus...
Asked Philadelphia Bulletin Editor Craig Ammerman: "Why didn't they simply run a correction?" Added Boston Globe Editorial Page Editor Martin Nolan, "There are two rules in writing editorials: 1) be clear; 2) have a point. This editorial satisfies neither rule." The unkindest cut came from former White House Spokesman Jody Powell, who suggested that the Post should change its editorial page motto from ''An Independent Newspaper" to "Caveat emptor "(Let the buyer beware...
...microgossip-the myriad back-nipping, back-fence, kitchen-table, men's-room exchanges all over the world, the low animated buzz of dirt-dishing that emanates from the globe-is the kind of gossip that may perform a kind of social mission. Microgossip keeps tumbling in like the surf, a Pepysian lounge...