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...Said Thomas Cheatham, NBC'S Israel bureau chief, who had been standing by in West Germany for the past four months: "A minimum figure for the watch here alone would be well over a million dollars for each network, and at least another million for pool coverage." The payoff was meager, however, since the hostages were rarely available to the press. Said William Tuohy of the Los Angeles Times: "Too much press, too little information...
Even if those ambitions are not realized, Voyager 1's conquest of Saturn is already providing an unexpectedly rich scientific payoff from the $500 million program. Almost as soon as the spacecraft began closing on the Saturnian system, the pace of discovery accelerated dramatically. As early as last August, Voyager 1's cameras picked up a red spot in Saturn's southern hemisphere. Another one soon showed in the northern hemisphere. Though these features remind scientists of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a great whirling storm that has lasted for at least three centuries, Saturn...
...tapes showed Stowe accepting $50,000 from an undercover FBI agent and Jenrette agreeing to back legislation that would enable a fictitious Arab sheik to settle permanently in the U.S. The prosecution charged that Stowe had picked up the money as a middleman to insulate the Congressman from the payoff...
...even when science was attracting little popular interest, plenty was going on. Investigators were making enormous strides, especially those involved in basic research?inquiries with no immediate practical payoff. Some researchers were probing the inner secrets of the atomic nucleus; others, like Sagan himself, looked out to the mysteries of the planets and the stars. Still others discovered how the earth's surface, found to be unexpectedly mobile, has been shaped and reshaped over the ages. Perhaps most startling of all were the explorations on the very frontiers of life. For the first time, scientists were beginning to understand...
...Preparing the transition report is certainly a high-risk business." Alm says. "It can have a high payoff if we can clear something up for the new administration, though. In any case, it is a good exercise for the Institute of Politics, and in the long run, worth the time and effort...