Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mount or even play a meaningful role in a manned Mars mission early in the 21st century, the next President will have to make a commitment to a coherent national space policy sooner rather than later. Enormous problems remain to be solved, and two decades is precious little time for developing a program that would land humans on another planet. The clock is running, and to NASA Ames Scientist Carol Stoker, the message from the Soviets is coming across loud and clear: "We're going to Mars, and the bus is leaving." And like her, more and more Americans...
...eager. "Before we could trot through our set pieces," said one participant, "he was challenging us, picking our brains, pitting us against one another." Among his questions: What was motivating Gorbachev's "new thinking" in foreign policy? Was it mainly domestic economics? Or did Western pressures play a role...
America's tongue-tied denial may be rooted in the way the destruction of Flight 655 brutally conflicts with the nation's self-image. Americans do not see themselves as trigger-happy gunslingers; that black-hat role was played by the Soviet Union in 1983 when it brazenly shot down a Korean airliner. Terrorists are supposed to be the ones who cause death in the air -- not the nation upholding the civilized rights of free passage in the Persian Gulf...
...triggered by the Iranian airbus disaster by stifling both moral responsibility and collective grief. A Washington Post- ABC News poll found that 74% of those surveyed believe that Iran is more to blame than the U.S. for the destruction of Flight 655. Certainly this reaction was compounded by the role that Iran plays in American demonology. Nine years of demonstrators in Tehran chanting "Death to America!" have fueled an emotional climate where 290 dead Iranians are deemed unworthy of genuine mourning, even when they are chance victims of a wayward American missile...
Counter maintains that he accepted onlycandidacy for the position, and not the role ofpresident, and that he has not reached a decisionyet. Officials at CUNY have said Counter iscurrently finalizing negotiations...