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...16th century. Nowadays, Central America is once again the land of the smoking gun. It is torn by struggle and threatened by a chain reaction of upheavals that could have far-reaching repercussions throughout the Americas. Warns Lieut. General Wallace Nutting, senior officer of the U.S. Southern Command: "All of Central America could very easily radicalize, and a very substantial wedge would be driven between north and south...
Precisely on schedule one day last week, controllers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., sent an electronic command leaping across 164 million miles of space. With that, Viking Orbiter 1, which has been faithfully circling Mars once every 47½ hours for the past four years, expelled its last puff of steering gas. No longer maneuverable, its electrical systems silenced, the unmanned spacecraft will now slowly sink until it finally crashes into Mars some time after the year...
...political powers of the presidency are his to command. He faces no single challenger popular enough to rally widespread support. His carefully selected delegates will form a clear and comfortable majority at his party's convention. His aides control the convention machinery. Yet despite all that, one astonishing fact remained: only a week before the Democratic National Convention assembles in New York City's Madison Square Garden, Jimmy Carter was a President under siege who could not be certain that he would be renominated by his party...
Erwartung's nightmare ambiguities can have a haunting power. The Santa Fe production makes them rather tame, except in the astringent sonorities arising from the orchestra pit. Soprano Nancy Shade, as the woman, has command of Schoenberg's difficult idiom, but her voice lacks the dramatic weight for a role that, as Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers describes it, is essentially "Isolde in nervous disintegration...
...have not had a proper capability for a limited response. The directive will permit us to substantially increase intelligence satellites and command and controls." Huntington said, adding that the decision was the outcome of a detailed three-year study and did not represent a political reelection ploy...