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...Mir Hussein Mousavi, 43. Prime Minister of Iran since 1981, Mousavi is labeled by one Reagan Administration analyst as the "most radical in the top leadership." He shuns all contact with the West and is a fierce proponent of nationalization of foreign companies and government control of the economy. Mousavi is opposed by an alliance of conservative clerics and merchants...
...Riga meeting, by contrast, was dominated by tough talk on both sides rather than toasts to mir i druzhba (peace and friendship). Largely because of the Daniloff affair, which was repeatedly raised by both Administration officials and private U.S. citizens, the Chautauquans were given a crash course in old-fashioned Soviet stonewalling. After a particularly harsh counterattack on Daniloff by Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky, one of the Americans in the audience commented, "It's like watching the machinery of the big lie in action -- from the inside...
Last February the Soviets put up a new space outpost called Mir (Peace). In March they docked a crew on the station, then fired up a couple of supply payloads. Next the crew taxied out to Salyut 7, another of their space redoubts. They returned to Mir and landed back on earth a few weeks ago. A maneuver like that by U.S. astronauts would have made even the Senate windbags look...
...year lead over the U.S. in the practical exploitation of space. That is the jarring message of the 1986 edition of Jane's Spaceflight Directory, published in Britain last week. Editor Reginald Turnill's appraisal is based partly on the fact that the Soviets have already launched the Mir space station, possibly the base module for an even larger structure, while it is likely the U.S. space station will not be operational until 1996, at best. "That's the ten-year gap, and this was the case before Challenger exploded," Turnill declares. "One can even argue that it's more...
Other scientists fear that the U.S.S.R. has seized the lead in the next stages of space exploration. The Soviets' Mir (Peace) space station, manned on March 13, is operational, while the U.S. is not yet fully committed to developing such a permanent space platform. The Soviets, long ahead of the U.S. in the lift capability of its superrockets, will soon have a new SL-W booster that can push 220,000 lbs. into orbit, about 3 1/2 times as much as the U.S. shuttle. The Soviets have, of course, one huge advantage: their authoritarian government provides long-term planning...