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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the shuttle Challenger exploded off Florida 19 months ago, U.S. space policy also went up in smoke. A series of unsuccessful launchings, including the loss of an Atlas-Centaur rocket fired into a lightning storm last March, has further devastated the space program and left it floundering. In a 63-page report prepared for NASA and released last week, Astronaut Sally Ride attempts to set the agency back on track. She argues for an "evolutionary" policy with diverse objectives, rather than a splashy, one-goal venture. Writes Ride, who was the first American woman in space: "It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Getting Nasa Back on Track | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Wattenberg's book has stirred a storm among politicians, academics and other public policy mavens. Critics charge that he provides a rationale for Big Brotherish intrusion into the intensely personal realm of childbearing. Indeed, Wattenberg believes the Government should encourage births with cash bonuses of up to $2,000 annually for each child 16 and under, tax deductions for day-care costs and forgiveness of educational loans in the case of graduates with babies. Other analysts are concerned that Wattenberg's data could be used to justify a rollback of proabortion laws, a reduction in sex education programs and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Battling Over Birth Policy | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez in February. Speaker Wright abruptly shifted ground, saying the homegrown Central American accord must prevail and that the White House proposal would be "merely supportive." Though Reagan initially gave his blessing to the Guatemala plan as well, he did not anticipate the fire storm of reaction from his conservative supporters, who were already appalled that the President had countenanced discussions with the Sandinistas in his original scheme. Even Vice President George Bush, eager to boost his conservative credentials in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, retreated. Said Bush: "We are not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Cursed Are the Peacemakers | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...mystery here is why Author Tom Clancy abandoned the Popular Mechanics formula that served him so well in The Hunt for Red October (1984) and Red Storm Rising (1986): describe enough hardware and any plot can seem plausible. Clancy occasionally hits his old stride ("Pellets fired from a shotgun disperse radially at a rate of one inch per yard of linear travel"), but this time out he concentrates on his human characters, a subject apparently beyond the range of his research. Patriot Games is a minefield of unintended comedy. When, for instance, the Princess announces that she is two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sitting Duck PATRIOT GAMES | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...front, there is the fear of a revival of the "war of the cities," which flared up again early this year when Tehran and other urban centers were bombed by Iraqi planes. Since then the attacks have abated, but the nervousness remains. When a severe thunder-and-lightning storm struck the capital last month, causing heavy flooding, some city dwellers thought an air raid was in progress and rushed to an underground passageway, where an unknown number drowned in the torrent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living With War And Revolution | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

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