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GIVEN an international situation in a remarkable state of flux, it is particularly disturbing to think of the immobility and ineffectiveness of our government in addressing its own problems. It is perhaps not surprising that President Bush began his term on a cautious, vigilant note. However, even though Bush did offer a desperately needed plan to relieve the debt burdens on Latin American governments, his first four months seemed, on the whole, to be lacking an agenda, reactive rather than active, characterized by weakness and vacillation...
...Ronald Walters is a professor of political science at Howard University and president of the National Congress of Black Faculty. He spent spring term as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics...
...funding is uncertain. While NASA has $24.2 million of EOS start-up money in its fiscal 1990 budget, the big push for Mission to Planet Earth will begin this fall, when the agency asks for $100 million more for 1991. That hardly seems too much for a long-term commitment to help save the planet...
...could be forgiven for losing track of time. On Jan. 13 the 27-year-old Italian interior designer descended into a cave near Carlsbad, N. Mex., where she was to live for more than four months as part of an experiment aimed at examining how the stresses of long-term isolation could affect space $ travel. Pioneer Frontier Explorations, an Italian research foundation, had selected Follini, one of 20 volunteers for the assignment, because she was judged to have inner strength and stamina. For 131 days she dwelled alone in a 20-ft. by 12-ft. Plexiglas module sealed...
Seeking a pivotal role in the campaign to save the planet, NASA is developing a long-term program of satellite flights designed to monitor intensively earth's ecological problems. Data received from sophisticated instruments aboard orbiting unmanned space platforms would help measure pollution, deforestation and other global threats. But funding for the proposal, which could eventually cost $20 billion, remains uncertain...