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Tempers flared early this month, when outraged Arabs drove a group of Israeli archaeologists from a dig along the wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, a site holy to both Muslims and Jews. In retaliation, Israel's National Religious Party announced plans to relocate its headquarters to mostly Arab East Jerusalem, a move certain to raise temperatures even further...
...mount or even play a meaningful role in a manned Mars mission early in the 21st century, the next President will have to make a commitment to a coherent national space policy sooner rather than later. Enormous problems remain to be solved, and two decades is precious little time for developing a program that would land humans on another planet. The clock is running, and to NASA Ames Scientist Carol Stoker, the message from the Soviets is coming across loud and clear: "We're going to Mars, and the bus is leaving." And like her, more and more Americans...
Even after the mighty 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope revealed no evidence at all of networks of straight lines or other manifestations of intelligent life on Mars, the fascination continued. Fredric Brown's novel Martians, Go Home, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, and the popular Buck Rogers comic strip all involved encounters with Martians of various sizes, shapes and consistencies...
Last week Jackson's plans to mount floor fights in Atlanta over 13 minority platform planks backfired. Dukakis aides grew so exasperated with Jackson's continued demands for control of seats on the Democratic National Committee that they told Jackson's people that if he did not limit the floor fights to three or four, he might be speaking to delegates well past prime time. Said a Dukakis staffer: "We'll do the floor fights, and you'll speak at midnight." Jackson threatened that he might just speak outside the hall, knowing the cameras would follow...
...path of the curator who would mount a serious survey of current Hispanic art is therefore rocky, steep and strewn with thorns. And yet it is unthinkable that serious attempts should not be made. Hence the interest of "Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors," a show of some 180 works that has been on view jointly at the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in Coral Gables, Fla. Curated by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, the exhibit has already been seen in Houston and Washington; after Miami...