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...there a way back to the moon? Not through NASA, which lost its clear sense of purpose after the Apollo program ended in 1972. The space shuttle proved fatally unreliable, and the proposed space station has been stuck on the drawing board for 10 years. With no vision to lift NASA, the agency is trapped in a downward spiral of mediocrity only slightly relieved by the brilliant repair of the Hubble telescope last winter. Administrator Daniel Goldin recently proposed a new mission: NASA should set a long-range goal of finding a habitable planet close to a nearby star. While...
...timing and rationale of the decision are disputed by historians and other experts. Many feel Kennedy's commitment was a desperate political maneuver to lift himself out of the calamity of the Bay of Pigs and rally a nation nervous from escalating tension with the Soviet Union in Berlin...
Promptly at 6 a.m., long before Southern California's chill and brooding morning fog begins to lift, a deputy sheriff unbolts the face-high shutter in the solid steel door of the cell and calls to prisoner 4013970. O.J. Simpson arises and is led across the hall for his daily shower. Returning to his cell, he shaves at the stainless-steel sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen...
...short of arms?" Stalin asked Kim when he heard about the first / border clashes between North and South in 1950. "We'll give them to you. You must strike the southerners in the teeth." Still, Stalin warned, "if you should get kicked in the teeth, I shall not lift a finger. You have to ask Mao for all the help." Kim went to Beijing, where he convinced Mao that Stalin believed a Korean war was winnable. The Chinese leader allowed himself to be persuaded, and he promised to stand by his new ally. But Kim had miscalculated. The U.S. intervened...
BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO: Lingering doubts about the fairness of the U.N.-sponsored -- and U.S.-supported -- arms embargo in the Balkan war prompted the fourth Senate proposal since May to lift the ban on shipments of weapons to the beleaguered Bosnians. Fifty Senators voted for the measure, but the other 50 opposed it, which, in the case of an amendment to a bill, counts as a defeat of the measure. A similar bill passed in the House, 244 to 178, on June...