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Your article reflects optimism about a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars by 2010 [SCIENCE, July 29]. This is commendable and desirable, but do not hold your breath waiting for it to materialize. One of the major reasons for my pessimism is that unlike the Soviet leadership, the U.S. Administration changes hands every four to eight years. This is not conducive to long-range planning. With new Administrations come policy shifts, fluctuations in funding and changes in attitude toward the U.S.S.R. If we were not able to go to the Olympics with the Soviets, how will we ever...
...after the blast news organizations in West Germany received a 2½ page letter in German jointly signed by two terrorist groups, West Germany's Red Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
Judging a civilization on the basis of its raffish after-hours entertainments poses certain problems. There may be aspects of the British, for instance, that are not clearly visible from a strip joint in Soho. But John David Morley, 37, never pretends to have found all there is to learn about Japan. He simply notices, as have others, that the drinking behavior of Japanese males is looser than the polite but evasive demeanor they customarily display. The Westerner who can inconspicuously swim along with these schools of nightly revelers will almost certainly see much that is barred to casual...
...view. So, when in Moscow, do as those in Moscow do. We interrupted too." It seemed to be "a shouting match," suggested one reporter. Not quite, said Shultz, just a "frank argument." But he left Moscow with no agreement even over whether the President and Gorbachev should issue a joint communiqué at the end of the summit meeting. The Soviets have proposed one, but Shultz's team answered in effect: Let's wait and see how the talks...
...from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to President Reagan, the U.S. Army last week chose a U.S.-French consortium to supply it with a sophisticated, $4.3 billion field-radio system. In one of the largest U.S. military contracts ever awarded for a foreign-designed system, the Army picked RITA, a joint venture by France's Thomson-CSF and GTE of Stamford, Conn., and turned down a competitive system offered by the British-American combine of Plessey Co. and Rockwell International...