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...also dropped out of the race to intercept Halley's comet, slated to return in early 1986, leaving direct examination of this primordial chunk of matter to the Soviets, Europeans and Japanese. It placed on hold a plan to put a remote radar-mapping satellite in orbit around Venus, and has delayed until at least 1986 a complex scheme to station a permanent unmanned weather observatory high above the brightly colored clouds of Jupiter. The only mission on J.P.L.'s immediate horizon is an astronomical satellite. To be launched this December, it will look for, among other things...
...shuttle must prove it can do the job it was built for: hoisting. satellites into orbit. The critical test will come during Columbia's next flight, scheduled for Nov. 11, when it will carry aloft two communications satellites-one American, the other Canadian. And even if Columbia passes this milestone, other questions will persist. NASA's initial justification for building a vehicle that wedded the technology of planes and rockets was to reduce the cost of space travel. However, the calculations depended on projections of extremely heavy traffic into space, with flights as frequent as every two weeks...
After Argentina invaded the Falklands last April, Kirkpatrick cautioned that the U.S. should remain neutral lest Washington force Buenos Aires into the orbit of the Soviet Union. When the Administration eventually accepted Haig's argument and took Britain's side, Kirkpatrick spoke against providing London with military intelligence and equipment. Alexander Haig...
...considerably less sanguine in its assessment of the situation. It realizes that an independent Iran, even an Islamic republic run by Khomeini, is the most reliable buffer between the Soviet Union and the Persian Gulf. Washington therefore will do nothing to push Iran into the Soviet orbit. On the other hand, the U.S. strongly favors the survival of Saddam Hussein, who in his quest for Western support has steadily moderated his anti-Israeli and anti-American radicalism. The U.S. probably welcomed Saddam Hussein's thrust into Iran in September 1980, believing it would increase the pressure on Khomeini...
Last February the Reagan Administration proposed a three-pronged effort to bolster the Caribbean economies and prevent them from being drawn into the Communist orbit. The plan would allow most exports from the region to enter the U.S. duty-free, give a tax credit to encourage American companies to invest in the Caribbean, and grant an additional $350 million in direct economic assistance this year...