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...year career in the U.S. Navy, however, William J. Crowe Jr. has always been addressed under another system of rank, and since 1973 Crowe's has been admiral. Last week President Reagan added still another title to the admiral's collection, nominating him as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, effective Oct. 1. Crowe succeeds General John Vessey Jr., 63, who chose to retire nine months before the completion of his second two-year term...
Meanwhile, Jordanian King Hussein's proposal for bringing about a negotiated settlement in the Middle East received some encouragement last week when Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, finally came up with a list of Palestinians acceptable to the P.L.O. who could serve on a joint Jordanian-Palestinian team. The group would meet first with U.S. diplomats to pave the way for direct negotiations with Israel. Although Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said he would welcome direct negotiations with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, he is not prepared to talk with Palestinians who have links to the P.L.O...
...Nixon talks, the mannerisms for which he has often been burlesqued start to crop up. Yet in his presence the sudden scowl, the self-administered hug are not only not funny; they do not seem at all spasmodic or out of joint with what he is saying. He is 72, and perhaps his mannerisms have grown less pronounced over the years. But here he is speaking about things with which he feels supremely comfortable, history and diplomacy, and the comfort shows in his face and body...
...celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space linkup were such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, former Moonwalker and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt, Astronaut Sally Ride, Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga and NASA Chief James Beggs. They proposed an agenda for the future as well: a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars, which could be launched as early as 2010. In the highlight of the meeting, sponsored by the Planetary Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov, the Soviet linkup veterans, rejoined their Apollo counterparts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton...
There are more practical reasons for a joint mission. Neither nation alone can easily afford the estimated $40 billion price tag. And even that figure is conservative; it assumes the existence of the $10 billion orbiting U.S. space station, now scheduled for completion around 1992, which will be used as a platform to assemble and launch the Mars-bound rocket...