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Liberal Distaste. Perhaps the final irony is that many U.S. liberals and intellectuals, who used to preach détente and denounce cold warriors, now sharply question and even attack the current Nixon-Kissinger bargaining with the Soviets. For example, Political Scientist Hans J. Morgenthau recently decided that the Soviet Union is too far outside any "moral consensus" shared with the rest of the international community to be trusted to fulfill its commitments. In recent weeks the tough Jackson amendment that would deny the Soviet Union many U.S. trade advantages unless it changes its emigration policy won the endorsement...
...Watergate. And where leaks make the public aware of a secret investigation, they serve another useful purpose: the chance of a special deal being struck is reduced; at the same time, public scrutiny helps to protect a defendant (even a Vice President) from being railroaded. Says Harvard Political Scientist Martin Shapiro: "The press provides a better check for the public on the criminal law process ... It's better for the public to know what's happening...
...second, millions of impulses skitter down the cables, linking the Real-world beneath the podium to the Magic Kingdom: the Bear Jamboree plunks and toots, holographic phantoms squeak and gibber among the cobwebs of the Haunted Mansion, and in the antechamber of the Moon Rocket in Tomorrowland, a robot scientist holds a conversation with a scarcely less robotic Disney World hostess...
...replacement for Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, has been picked, but Farber indicated that Dean Rosovsky may recommend another scientist...
...months or even years before the 200 solar scientists working on the Skylab program can digest the information. But some important discoveries have already been made, particularly about the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere. During the mission, at a time in the eleven-year solar cycle when the sun should be relatively quiet, two exceptionally large flares suddenly appeared; one of them expanded over an area 17 times the diameter of the earth. Under the direction of Garriott, a solar scientist by profession, the awesome event was photographed and measured from the first minutes of the eruption. Their...