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What went wrong? Some of the problems are beyond blame: Mondale started out in front and has campaigned almost flawlessly. But the failure of the Glenn enterprise will surely turn out to have been John Glenn. "He knows about going to outer space," says Florida Legislative Aide Jack Newsome, a nominal Glenn supporter, "but he does not know much about running a campaign...
...evil empire" that had committed "a crime against humanity" when its fighters shot down a Korean jetliner; Yuri Andropov responding that the Reagan Administration had "finally dispelled" all "illusions" that it could be dealt with. At a baser level, crude vilification: American caricatures of Andropov as a "mutant from outer space"; Soviet comparisons of Reagan to Adolf Hitler...
...Australian government has greatly elevated arms control and disarmament goals within our foreign policy. As a member of every multilateral disarmament body, Australia is promoting the negotiation of treaties to end nuclear testing and to ban chemical weapons, and measures to prevent an arms race in outer space. We are also helping to strengthen measures against the spread of nuclear weapons. For countries such as ours, there is no substitute for the hard slog of multilateral negotiations designed to engage the interests and support of the superpowers. We were recently encouraged by a U.N. vote in which this year...
...immediate problem that needs the most serious attention is the prospect that we shall be moving the arms race into outer space. Without getting into the scientific and technical debate as to whether antiballistic missile capabilities are possible through such esoteric space weapons, two things should be clear. First, we must assume that the Soviets will be able to do whatever we manage to do, after spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the effort. Secondly, we can be sure that if we or the Soviets, or both, begin to approach success in devising such space weapons, there will...
Laurie Anderson: O Superman (directed by Josh White). Performance art in outer space; a satellite transmission from a forbidden planet...