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Officially the U.S. government neither favors nor frowns on purchasing space technology from the Russians, but the lack of a clear-cut policy has enabled hard-liners to hold sway. Shutting out the Russians, though, may prove more dangerous than propping them up. Secretary of State James Baker announced in January that the U.S. would contribute $25 million toward an institute in Moscow that will employ Russian nuclear scientists and presumably keep them from hiring out to outlaw states such as Libya and Iraq. The same logic should apply to space scientists and hardware, which -- as the hard-liners themselves...
...seem now, a substantial minority of Jews welcomed Benito Mussolini's accession to power in 1922. He promised order in a land threatened by leftist chaos, and il Duce's brand of Fascism did not become ideologically anti- Semitic until he fell under Adolf Hitler's political sway during the mid-' 30s. To many Jews, patriotism became a near substitute for faith and for the ancient rituals they infrequently observed. Such was their loyalty to their homeland that on the so-called Day of Faith (Dec. 18, 1935), communities even donated gold and silver religious objects from their synagogues...
...NCAA ruled last November that Llopis could not play for Harvard because he had played for a professional team in Spain. His first appeal in December failed to sway a special NCAA Eligibility Committee...
...orders. "Shoot to kill" was the command for dealing with people who tried to escape across the border, and in the eyes of Heinrich's supervisors his actions were not merely legal but commendable. Three years later, Heinrich, 27, lives in the same Berlin, but a different government holds sway and new laws prevail. Now he is, retroactively, a felon. Last week he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison -- specifically, the trial judge said, for following the laws of his country rather than asserting his conscience. Said Judge Theodor Seidel: "Not everything that...
Small wonder that some U.S. analysts see a bruising battle ahead. But both Bush and Shamir are running for re-election this year, and neither relishes the prospect of a fight with an ally who can sway domestic voters from afar. Members of Congress, who must approve the guarantees, know they will suffer electoral consequences if the decision pits their loyalty to Israel against their commitment to the peace process. So in Washington, if not in the Middle East, compromise appears to be at hand...