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Proctor's plan has five points, affecting operations related to telephones, data networks local area networks, joint publishing and mainframe systems...
Indian in the Cupboard, a joint Paramount and Columbia Pictures release, is this summer's attempt to challenge the superhero-dominated children's entertainment of the summer with some old-fashioned, whole-some fun. Unfortunately, it just doesn't deliver what it promises...
...locks for a symbolic handshake, amid much talk that the superpowers were going to move from the space race of the 1960s to a new era of space cooperation. Despite efforts in that direction, little availed, and shortly after the declaration of martial law in Poland in 1981 the joint space agreements were allowed to lapse...
This time, there is good reason to believe the talk is more than political posturing. Both Russia and the U.S. have powerful incentives to make a joint venture work. The Russians desperately need U.S. financial help to salvage their fast-crumbling space infrastructure. The U.S. wants to keep the attention of Russian scientists and rocket engineers focused on nonmilitary projects, rather than see them succumb to the lure of weapons work for other nations. Moreover, though America's manned space program is much healthier than Russia's, a tightfisted Congress keeps squeezing the agency's budget. The latest round...
...depends on U.S.-Russian relations remaining cordial for the next 1-1/2 decades, which is by no means certain. For all the potential pitfalls, though, the very fact that astronauts and cosmonauts were coasting together high above the earth last week, cooperating in a well-planned, tightly executed joint mission, is reason for optimism. Twenty years ago, says Gibson, the astronauts may have thought, "I'm shaking your hand but do I really trust you?" This time, there's no doubt that both sides are doing everything they can to make things work...