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...that assignment and his current beat in Washington, he spent a year at M.I.T. as a Bush fellow in science journalism. His work on this week's story began this summer in Hawaii at an international space conference. It was in that inspirational environment that Thompson first interviewed Roald Sagdeyev, director of the Soviet Space Research Institute, who helped smooth the way for his trip to Moscow. "We'd watch waves outside our restaurant window, and that would lead to thoughts about plasma physics." The two hit it off so well that Sagdeyev agreed to visit a restaurant that Thompson...
Such self-assurance on the part of the Soviet space establishment will be in ample evidence this week as IKI and its charismatic director, Roald Sagdeyev, sponsor a three-day extravaganza of seminars and speeches celebrating the 30th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Called Space Future Forum, it will focus on the topic of international cooperation in space. Some 500 scientific luminaries from around the world plan to attend...
...Kremlin harbors the opposite suspicion: that R. and D. will turn out to be a smoke screen for an all-out program to deploy SDI. As Roald Sagdeyev, director of Moscow's Space Research Institute, told TIME, "We need some kind of insurance policy on SDI; otherwise, what is advertised innocently as a testing program could lead to rapid deployment of a full-scale system. Unrestrained SDI testing would confront our military planners with the requirement of more offensive systems, not less. It's that simple...