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...ruefully asserted, "It is so simplistic. Good Guy Mikhail offers to get rid of all nuclear missiles while Ron the Hawk lumbers on with his antimissile system. It is going to be a difficult task to explain to public opinion that in the real world it is the small print that really matters, not the grandiose initiatives...
...line is simply to insist that Soviet negotiators spell out all the small print in Gorbachev's proposals. So far as it goes, that is logical. For all its ambiguities and propagandistic sweep, the plan hints at enough concessions to spur serious negotiating. Only detailed probing at Geneva will determine how much is real and how much is propaganda, and there is room for healthy skepticism. But the heat will be on Washington--both for the sake of winning the battle for public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come...
...Wolfe and ABC White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson. Former CBS Anchorman and veteran Space Reporter Walter Cronkite proudly announced that he was in the running. To be considered, applicants must be U.S. citizens and have five or more years of full-time professional experience reporting contemporary events in print or on television or radio. There is no age limit, and aspirants who reach the final selection process will be screened by a new, less stringent medical standard established by NASA for such civilian projects: free of disease, injury or other condition likely to interfere with the mission or preflight training...
...winner, as the application form notes, will be selected for "demonstrated professionalism" and "the ability to communicate clearly and effectively to mass audiences in both electronic and print media." To this end, each candidate had to write two essays, one explaining how he would communicate the experience of space travel, the other speculating about reporting from space ten to 20 years from now and what it would mean to journalists, their profession and the public...
...much of the lore surrounding the subject has been exaggerated. ATLA analyzed several cases that insurers regularly trot out to prove that the system has got out of hand and found that the facts did not quite support the versions that have passed into insurance folklore and public print, although one or two, even after correction, still sound odd. Some examples...