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...advance with the White House and got approval from the National Security Council. A few hours before he delivered it, he gave a copy to Secretary of State George Shultz. The two men have been on opposite sides of national security issues, although there is no consistent ideological pattern to their differences...
...problem was the unpredictable ways in which languages evolve: the panel had to devise forms of communication that could be understood by the next 300 or so generations. One suggestion is a waste repository with a series of raised earth barriers built around it in a triangular pattern. Within this wedge would be monument-like markers, as durable and detectable as England's Stonehenge monoliths. These structures would bear triangular warning symbols or cartoons as simple in design as the 17,000-year-old cave drawings by Cro-Magnon man in France. One proposed sequence of drawings: three human...
...Northeast and industrial Midwest were supposed to form the geographic base for the liberal Democratic ticket. But exit polls there signaled a pattern that would be repeated across the country: Mondale could not win the voting groups he had to carry to defeat Reagan...
Among the prize finds: three elegant ceramic pots made between 3500 and 2500 B.C., one with incised designs, that were placed atop the legs of a buried body; a large vessel with an intricate scroll pattern, dated 3000 to 2000 B.C., that was used to inter a two-year-old child, and a plain cup found near by that might have contained food for the baby; and two iron spearheads with bronze sockets (to hold wooden handles), dated 800 to 400 B.C., which are among the oldest iron objects found in eastern Asia...
That's the way it always seems to happen with football captains, and the easy-going Martinson echoes that pattern...