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...long the voyagers stay on Mars will depend in part on the homeward-bound route. To await the proper alignment of Mars and the earth for an economical Hohmann-ellipse return, the crew would have to remain on Mars for more than a year -- increasing the mission length to what now seems an unbearably long 1,100 days. But with the expenditure of more fuel, the explorers could blast off earlier, head toward Venus and loop around it, using the planet's gravity to whip their craft toward earth at a higher speed. That would cut the mission time...
...highly acclaimed biography "Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe" earned David H. Donald, Warren Professor of American History, his second Pulitzer Prize...
...close to the eight months demanded by the West. Addressing a key U.S. concern, he said that a "relatively greater portion" of the forces could leave at the beginning of the period. If those gestures satisfied the other parties to the conflict, he said, Soviet tanks might start clanking homeward as soon as May 15 -- close to the date, not coincidentally, when Reagan is expected to arrive in Moscow for the next superpower summit...
Agreeing to a ten- month timetable for withdrawal of his troops, Gorbachev says the next round of Geneva talks may be the last. The tanks could begin clanking homeward by May 15. -- In Austria, Waldheim resists new pressure to step down. -- A former top aide to Panamanian Strongman Noriega tells of corruption on a grand scale. -- Growing militance among West Bank settlers...
...Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe...