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...actual joint expedition to Mars. At best, they point out, the success of any joint mission would rest on the fragile foundation of the Soviet leader's revival of detente with the West. Could good relations between the superpowers, they ask, last long enough to complete, say, a ten-year project? "There are potential benefits to us from such a mission," says U.S. Space Watcher Nicholas Johnson. "But there is great uncertainty about the political environment...
Nevertheless, Rather beat out Mudd for the anchor job, rankling some TV traditionalists in the process. In an effort to keep him from jumping to ABC, CBS gave Rather a record $22 million ten-year contract, a quantum leap in the pay for network journalists. The network also had to ask Cronkite politely to move up his retirement date to accommodate Rather's new contract. Cronkite agreed, but some insiders claim he was never happy about...
True to its charter, the society is also developing educational video disks, and has produced a board game, Global Pursuit, as part of a ten-year program to restore geographic literacy to U.S. schoolchildren. Its steady output of adventure and scientific programming for television will reach more than 100 hours next year. Says C.D.B. Bryan, author of the centennial volume, The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery (Abrams; $45): "The National Geographic is not at all what we remember. It's not the old lady it used...
...that without Paul's cooperation, military and paramilitary forces could not have aborted the balloting. Paul is known to have a close working relationship with Claude Raymond, a former general whose presidential campaign was crushed when the electoral council disqualified twelve candidates, citing the new constitution's widely popular ten-year ban on Duvalierists seeking public office...
...back down, but not before soldiers had shot 30 Haitians dead. Two months later a presidential candidate was hacked to death by machete. In October a second candidate was shot fatally. In neither instance was an investigation publicly ordered. Last month the electoral council, citing the new constitution's ten-year ban on Duvalierists seeking public office, disqualified twelve presidential candidates. After that, the terrorism took off virtually unbounded...