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...Another shot resembles a sort of hacksaw that turns out, on closer inspection, to be an assortment of bombers at a top-secret airfield in the Soviet Union. There are also high-altitude views of submarines nestling alongside their mother ships on the coast of the Barents Sea; a lunar-like landscape that is a Soviet hydrogen-bomb test site; a graceful triangular pattern deep in central Asia that marks the Tyuratam launch site for Soviet space shots and missiles...
...foot on the moon since the last team of Apollo astronauts landed there in the winter of 1972. Nor is there much likelihood of further lunar exploration by either Americans or Soviets any time soon. Yet the moon has suddenly become the object of a heated debate on earth. The issue: Should President Carter sign an international agreement called the moon treaty that could curtail American rights in space...
...critics, led by the space buffs in the 4,000-member L5* Society respond with a rousing no. The society, which hopes to see a space colony built at L-5 out of lunar materials, views the pact as a grave obstacle to its own visionary goals. Skillfully arguing the group's case is Leigh Ratiner, a veteran Washington lobbyist. He says that the treaty, which was approved by the U.N. General Assembly in December and needs to be signed and ratified by only five countries to become international law, amounts to a "wholesale giveaway of access to vital...
...anti-treaty forces see serious booby traps in the treaty's language. They note that it speaks of the moon and its resources as "the common heritage of mankind" and calls for "an equitable sharing" of them by all countries, whether or not they have participated in the lunar enterprise. Warns Houston Lawyer Art Dula, in the L-5 News: "Free enterprise institutions simply cannot make significant investments in space while they are under the threat of suit over treaty terms or ex post facto appropriation of their investments by a nebulous future international regime...
...liberation of feeling that went with the unfettering of post-impressionist color. The stocky, compact little body looks curiously unsensuous, at least by the conventions that Ingres or his salon followers would have recognized, but it is color that turns it into the epitome of carnality: the deep lunar blue of the chair enthroning the shadowed flesh, the sudden blaze of yellow on the floor. In such paintings, the world is reformed entirely in terms of color. The way to Matisse and the Fauves is open. A new era has begun...