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...little to do there save work for his own re-election--something he doesn't have to worry much about. Similarly, Rep. Phillip M. Crane (R-Ill.) has been staying close to home, trying to win himself re-election--which should be no problem--and helping to shore-up support for Reagan in the Chicago suburbs...
Leading the left against Healey is Peter Shore, 56, the party spokesman on foreign affairs. Trained as a political economist at King's College, Cambridge, Shore was elected to the House of Commons in 1964 and later served as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1967-69), Trade (1974-76) and the Environment (1976-79). With hair that flops over his face, he is an attractive if low-key candidate. He owes his leftist credentials to his opposition to Britain's membership in the European Community. But he is also a passionate supporter of NATO and the Anglo...
...Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The Afghan leader was on his first venture outside the Soviet-occupied country since he was installed as Moscow's puppet last December. The sheer number of senior Soviet Politburo members participating in the Moscow welcome demonstrated the Kremlin's obvious desire to shore up Karmal's legitimacy and make a show of his supposed influence with the Kremlin. Mused a Western diplomat who observed the arrival: "There were more bear hugs than at a circus...
...Sagan in Los Angeles. Stoler, who has known Sagan since 1975 when Stoler was serving as TIME'S Science writer, spent the whole day following him, from the Griffith Park Observatory to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, to Venice, Calif., for a photograph of Sagan "on the shore of a cosmic ocean." Explains Stoler: "Since a real cosmic ocean was unavailable, we had to settle for the Pacific." The story was researched by Philip Faflick, who held jobs programming computers and writing mathematical games for grade-school students before becoming the Science section's reporter-researcher. Despite...
...planets, dozens of moons, thousands of asteroids and billions of comets?the family of our sun." He fantasizes about large, tenuous life forms in the stormy atmosphere of Jupiter and about small, microbial ones in the reddish volcanic soil of Mars. To the space traveler, the earth is the shore of a cosmic ocean: "Recently, we have waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting...