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Other scientists fear that the U.S.S.R. has seized the lead in the next stages of space exploration. The Soviets' Mir (Peace) space station, manned on March 13, is operational, while the U.S. is not yet fully committed to developing such a permanent space platform. The Soviets, long ahead of the U.S. in the lift capability of its superrockets, will soon have a new SL-W booster that can push 220,000 lbs. into orbit, about 3 1/2 times as much as the U.S. shuttle. The Soviets have, of course, one huge advantage: their authoritarian government provides long-term planning...
...worries about America's current space failures as the product of small minds and faint hearts. Calling the solar system "our extended home," the document urges the U.S. to take logical, sequential steps toward colonizing space over the next 50 years. It assumes that NASA's proposed orbiting space station will be in place by 1994. Simultaneously, research would proceed on both an aerospace plane (President Reagan's so-called Orient Express), capable of taking off from runways and soaring into orbit, and a new generation of reusable rocket-powered craft that would reach orbit with a single-stage engine...
Those unable to make the trek to the Yard can catch the big event on a local television station, WGBH, which will broadcast the ceremonies live from Tercentenary Theater. In addition, the Commencement ceremony will be shown on large screen televisions in Sanders Theater and Science Center B--where the speeches will be signed for the deaf...
...life, a test of neighborhood values versus civil rights. What Cuomo learned was that coming up with a simple, Solomonic solution (he proposed halving the size of the project) was a great deal easier than getting both sides to accept it. The resolution he engineered was a way station on the road to progressive pragmatism. The hothead who bruised his knuckles on a catcher's face mask was learning the art of compromise...
...Nelson Mandela, the leader of its militant wing, was found guilty of sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment, and, a little later, the banned A.N.C. set up a government-in-waiting in newly independent Zambia. Today a few hundred A.N.C. employees coordinate cultural projects, run a radio station and even manage a high-tech 10,000-acre farm on which they grow food to feed their forces. Meanwhile, an estimated 10,000 fighters are trained, apparently by East German and other advisers, in northern Angola. For their ideological education, the rebels go to the Marxist-leaning Solomon Mahlangu College...