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Giotto's grand finale was preceded by the flybys of the second Soviet Vega and two Japanese craft. Early in the week, Vega 2 passed 5,125 miles from the comet's nucleus, sending back 700 pictures and confirming that the nucleus was solid. But the dust clouds encountered by the craft disabled nearly half of its solar panels and two of its experiments...
...Administration is quite right not to rule out the use of American military force in Central America. The U.S. must keep all its enemies guessing in this respect, from the Soviet Union to two-bit muggers in the back alleys of the Third World. But the political wisdom of "threatening" Congress with the prospect of American military intervention was dubious. It invited a chain of tough questions that only put the Administration more on the defensive at a time when it needs to close partisan ranks: What if the Congress goes along with the White House, but the contras still...
...course, the Sandinistas already have an inclination to go after their neighbors. That is the principal drawback of the fourth option, which is to keep the contra campaign going long enough to bring about a diplomatic solution. Like their mentor in Moscow, Soviet-style regimes are generically determined at least to neutralize, better yet to destabilize, and ideally to communize other states. They wage war abroad, either outright or by more covert means, for the same reason that they oppress internal opposition: because it is opposition, and because they are totalitarian. Genuine live-and-let-live peaceful coexistence...
What they might conceivably do, however, is sign an agreement that would trade away their license--and at least some of their wherewithal--to follow the Soviet pattern of behavior outside their borders. Elements of such a deal are at hand in the Contadora proposal, which calls for the reduction of the Sandinista armed forces, the withdrawal of Soviet and Cuban military advisers and a ban on the export of revolution. The Sandinistas have hinted they might be willing to accept something along those lines. Even some Administration officials believe the Sandinistas might pay that price to get the contras...
...Third World despot like Muammar Gaddafi, they can add an explosive exclamation point to presidential rhetoric. To John Lehman, Reagan's aggressive Navy Secretary, the carriers have an even more important strategic role. He believes they can safeguard vital sea-lanes during peacetime and could press close to Soviet shores in the early hours of a full-scale conventional war with the Soviet Union...