Word: toon
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Unlike Andropov, who never traveled to a country that was not under Communist control, Chernenko is not unknown in the West. Still, a number of Westerners who have met him are unimpressed. "He is a dullard," says Malcolm Toon, the tart-tongued former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, who met Chernenko at the SALT II talks in Vienna in 1979. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration's National Security Adviser, remembers Chernenko as "a very cautious bureaucrat, very deferential to Brezhnev, not forceful, not dynamic." The fact that Chernenko was "the least competent, the least likely to innovate [of the contenders]," Brzezinski...
...Turco, O.B. Toon, T.P. Ackerman, J.B. Pollack and Carl Sagan in a study entitled "Nuclear Winter Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (and referred to as TTAPS after the authors names), examine a previously ignored effect of nuclear detonations: the creation of dust and soot that can float in the middle and upper atmosphere for years. Isolated detonations the only kind we have witnessed in our experience with nuclear weapons to date do not generate enough dust and soot to create any long term atmospheric changes. But any nuclear war between the superpowers is likely to involve thousands of warheads...
...Brian Toon of NASA's Ames center says the cloud could reduce temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by a degree or so next summer-enough to affect growing seasons and rainfall. Others say the effect will be too negligible, only a few tenths of a degree. Scientists will have plenty of time to decide the issue: it may take up to five years before all the dust from El Chichon settles back to earth. Says DeLuisi: "We've got a nice little experiment going on here...
...real question about diplomats is not what they used to be but how well they are doing now, and on this score, Toon's critiques appear to be mostly wide of the mark. In London, Ambassador Louis is well liked by the Foreign Office and respected by his own career subordinates as a hard worker. Galbraith, a former banker, is considered by many in Paris to be the right kind of conservative to represent a business-oriented Administration to the new Socialist government...
Despite his language gap, Rabb is regarded by other Western diplomats in Rome as energetic and highly visible, if somewhat unversed in Italian politics and culture. Toon, however, may have a point about the standoffish Gavin, who keeps a low profile and is known for his hot tem per in dealing with staff and press. Refer ring to his country's best-known comedian, one Mexican official suggested...