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...Pearl Jam's first album is a song called Release, for which no lyrics are given, perhaps because the subject matter is too painful for Vedder to see in print. It captures the feeling of embracing the past, with all its hurt and controversy, and setting out on a new course. "I'll ride the wave/ Where it takes me," Vedder sings, imagining he is singing to his lost father, dreaming that he is uniquely himself but still somehow an amalgam of his father and his past. "I'll hold the pain/ Release me." It's a healthy attitude...
...would not last long. While one side is perfecting its defenses, the other is working feverishly on countermeasures--and very likely nuclear countermeasures, precisely because those are probably going to be the most cost-effective. It may be a permanent fact of the nuclear age that offense wins. No matter what SDI produces in the way of lasers and particle beams, the Soviets' nuclear offense--unless it is constrained by arms-control agreements--will eventually be able to ''beat'' Reagan's ray guns just as it beat Ike's antiaircraft system and Nixon's ABMs. In an attempt to deal...
...cancellation of the space shuttle. Then, in an interview last August with TIME, Gorbachev said that what he called fundamental research would not be covered by the ban. But Soviet officials subsequently explained that ''purposeful'' research on strategic defenses would still be forbidden. Since purpose would be a matter of declared intention, the American SDI would be outlawed, while the Soviets could continue testing huge high-energy lasers in Central Asia by claiming that they were for medical purposes. Even SDI skeptics like Sidney Drell believe that the U.S. should maintain a vigorous--and very purposeful--research program in strategic...
Daniel Manion is an Indiana attorney and a former state senator whose practice has been the usual small-firm mix of real estate transactions, business matters, wills and personal-injury claims. He has never argued a case before a federal appeals court or even been the lead lawyer in any federal case. That did not matter much to his clients or anyone else until President Reagan nominated the conservative lawyer for the important U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago. Soon the Senate will vote on whether to confirm him, and the result is being watched intently...
...diplomats in East Berlin would receive new identity cards that are to be shown when the officials cross between Soviet- occupied East Berlin and the Western sector. The government insisted that there had been a misunderstanding and that the passport requirement had been only a temporary measure. While that matter appears to have been settled, an attempt by the East Germans to stamp courtesy visas in the passports of diplomats visiting from West Berlin must still be resolved before the latest skirmish in the battle for Berlin is over...