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...rancher shakes his head. "A cattleman's word is as good as his bond. But the oilman thinks that breaking his word is smart business. He even admires it." One catches, yet again, a faintly elegiac note, the hint of mourning for a more chivalrous, manly order that is collapsing. Raising beef in a nation terrified of cholesterol does not always retain either its profit or its romance. The rancher wonders (as he has for a generation or two) if the endangered species is not the man who rides the horse. -By Lance Morrow
...Ronald Reagan at his press conference last week, in what seemed a conciliatory, almost inviting gesture. For members of Congress traumatized by the prospect of enacting the President's fiscal 1983 budget, which projects a $91.5 billion deficit despite more politically painful spending cuts, Reagan's coy hint of compromise was in welcome contrast to his previous "put up or shut up" attitude toward critics. Nonetheless, the President insisted, there should be no tampering with his plan to add $34 billion to defense spending and to cut $91.6 billion in taxes next year...
...similarities to earlier triumphant trips to Mexico and Poland, there were inescapable differences. The Pontiff looked older and drawn, with an occasional hint of feebleness. And as the cordons of security police mingling with crowds made all too plain, it was impossible to forget the gunfire in St. Peter's Square. Indeed, soon after the trip started, West German police picked up Turkish Terrorist Omer Ay, who is suspected of having been an accomplice in the assassination attempt. There was reason for concern near at hand. Nigeria's official news agency reported the arrest of four people...
...billion Saudi purchase of U.S. AWACS radar warning planes had been signed, although he had been expected to do so. Presumably the Secretary once again urged Fahd to visit Washington, a trip the Crown Prince has canceled twice during the past year, but there was no hint that Fahd intended to accept the invitation in the near future. The basic problem, as always, was the Saudi view that the U.S. must take a "stronger stance" against Israel, in pursuit of a Middle East peace...
...observatory. Because of the pristine quality of the air and the funnel-like shape of the earth's magnetic field at the antipodes, scientists are able to measure the amount of carbon dioxide and pollutants in the atmosphere and register the influx of cosmic rays from space (a hint of solar activity) with much greater ease than at any other place on the earth's surface. The station also acts as a laboratory for the study of human behavior in isolation. Last week the season's final flight took off from the pole. Left behind until November...