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...budgetary amendment that would require NASA to certify Mir's safety before more Americans go aloft. Russia appears to realize that it will either have to scuttle the ship or invest the money to fix it properly. While Moscow has nothing like the ready rubles that flowed during the Sputnik days, the government is proving resourceful at scratching up funds...
...they had faced in the previous quarter-century. Although I did not know it at the time, in my freshman year, 1972, Penn was emerging from a fiscal crisis. The stage was set in the '50s, when, awash in the ever rising tsunami of federal spending triggered by Sputnik's assault on the nation's pride, Penn and its peers went on a building-and-hiring binge. A surge of Great Society financial-aid money helped them expand even further. New faculty could be supported with minimal strain because the salaries were largely covered by federal grants. From...
...Russian space program, the comeback was supposed to begin this month. Ever since the fall of communism, the agency that gave the world Sputnik, Gagarin and the space station Mir appeared to have fallen too, with slashed budgets leading to fewer launches and worried whispers in the international community that even those missions were dangerously underfinanced. Lately, however, Russia has been funneling all its space resources into the launch of its Mars '96 probe, an unmanned spacecraft designed to orbit the Red Planet, dispatch a quartet of landers to the surface and, perhaps most important, return the country...
...candidate could have run on pure optimism. We were smack in the middle of a full-tilt boom, with steady growth, full employment, no inflation, balanced federal budgets as a matter of course, a constantly rising standard of living, low crime rates, stable families. Yet over our heads, Sputnik was circling the earth, an implacable Soviet Union seemed to be on the offensive, and the worry was powerful enough to encourage John Kennedy to run for President warning of America's shrinking prestige in the world. Later, presidential chronicler Theodore White would write that "1960 was a year of national...
...misconduct that would justify the expansion of NATO is the experience of the cold war. Having learned the lesson of the Hitler era, the democracies responded promptly, firmly and effectively to a series of dangerous Soviet initiatives: the forcible imposition of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Korean War, Sputnik and the invasion of Afghanistan. I believe the West would act in a similar manner to protect the new democracies of Eastern Europe should these countries be threatened by renewed Russian imperialism. Because they are not currently threatened, there is no need to expand NATO now. MICHAEL MANDELBAUM, PROFESSOR Johns...