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...years ago, everyone had his personal vision of the end-time, inspired by any one of a thousand doomsaying paperbacks. In some, people stood close together, two to each square foot of soil. Others gave dreams of the winter without oil, or the year that the Third World collectively decided it had suffered long enough at our expense and sent vanguard elements to wreak havoc. Many feared nothing more complicated than nuclear holocaust; and a few still thought that, after all, it might be the Communists. If the peddlers of survival gear are to be believed, people have of late...
...Iranians, who have refused all negotiations while Baghdad's soldiers remain on their soil, were indignant over the Iraqi letter. Railed one senior Iranian civil servant: "We shall see how much insolence Saddam retains when we put him on trial as a war criminal...
...hostages are released, Richard Scammon believes, the stunning television spectacle of men and women kissing U.S. soil after a year of captivity would virtually assure the President's victory. Still, a thin hint that Khomeini was seeking leverage or the White House orchestrating such a drama could send Carter packing. What if there were Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz and Carter dispatched a huge allied armada to clear them out? The experts quibble-maybe yes for Carter-on-the-bridge, maybe...
While placatory on the hostages, Raja'i dismissed any possibility of a ceasefire in the war, repeating Iran's warning that it would not consider any cessation of hostilities so long as Iraqi troops remained on its soil. Still, his appearance at the U.N. could mean that Iran is finally edging out of its diplomatic shell. Some military and diplomatic observers spectulated that, for all its fierce military resistance, Iran might finally be beginning to hurt on the battlefield...
...single, ordinary, yellow dwarf star surrounded by a system of nine 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...