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...being probed by aliens aboard a spacecraft; a tale that inspired a book, a TV movie and a wave of popular fascination with alien encounters. DIED. PAUL H. NITZE, 97, formidable diplomat and negotiator who was one of the principal architects of American's cold war policies toward the Soviet Union; in Washington, D.C. Erudite, brash and sometimes irritable, he worked for Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt through to Ronald Reagan, helping to instigate the postwar Marshall Plan and, in 1950, writing a key paper that urged a U.S. economic and military buildup to "frustrate the Kremlin design...
...TIME: Is there any reason for optimism? Dalai Lama: Many communist and authoritarian regimes have changed, including the Soviet Union, not by force but by their own people. These are very positive developments. China [still has] the same system, but the reality is that much is changing. Freedom of information, religious freedom and freedom of the press are much better. I feel that man-made unrealistic systems eventually return to a human, natural way. We love freedom. Even animals love their freedom. And now naturally that is coming back. So on that level, the situation in Tibet is hopeful. Today...
...little resistance as possible, were almost impossible to protect from the heat of re-entry. Faget designed a blunt nose for the Mercury, which created a shock wave that deflected the heat, a design feature later used on the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, as well as the Soviet Soyuz...
Even though the Cold War glossed these differences over with anti-Soviet unity, he said, it is not surprising Europe and the United States do not see eye-to-eye on foreign policy issues...
...Schwartz flinches when you call any of them predictions, since each scenario is only one of a set. The Greening of Russia scenario that foresaw the rise of Gorbachev, for example, was balanced against the New Stalinism, which imagined a hard-line Soviet backlash. "If you try to predict something," says Schwartz, "you end up with very conventional ideas. Scenarios help you anticipate surprises...