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...launched in 1977 and flew by Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1981, sending back spectacular pictures and mountains of data. Last week, still in good health after more than eight years in the void, Voyager 2 had closed to within 46 million miles of Uranus, its next target. The spacecraft's early shots of the mysterious planet, which is four times as large as the earth, were transmitted across 1.8 billion miles of space to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They depicted Uranus as a fuzzy blue-green ball, showed its five known moons and barely discerned...
Officials attribute the growing number of spy arrests both to an increase in espionage and to stepped-up counterintelligence efforts by the FBI and CIA (see box). The most spectacular catch came last summer with the arrest of John Walker, a retired Navy communications specialist who sold secrets to the Soviets for 17 years with the help of his son Michael, 23, his brother Arthur and, allegedly, his friend Jerry Whitworth...
Nothing about Reagan is spectacular--except his continuing success. Almost nothing that Reagan does is all that great--but he does something. The lions of the liberal-policy elite of Washington, so enamored of cosmic theories and academic credentials, have retreated into a sullen silence. "They harbor a horrible resentment of Reagan because he is not following their prescriptions on how to run the world," says one scholar. "Worse, he is successful...
...indication in eight weeks that governments have decided that the best way to beat terrorism is to fight fire with fire. So far the results have been mixed. In the celebrated air interception of the four Palestinians who took over the Achille Lauro, U.S. anger and decisiveness yielded a spectacular victory without bloodshed. But in the Colombian government's Nov. 6 assault on M-19 terrorists holed up in the country's Palace of Justice, and again in Malta last week, the responses produced triumphs that could just as easily be termed disasters...
...complain? The ratings are hardly spectacular, but you're getting raves. Anyone else might get dumped on for trading in nostalgia or resorting to self-parody. What's your secret? Much love, Murray...