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...Hermes has the power to force Quinta to respond or to destroy it, but such a victory would constitute a defeat. One crew member tells the captain, "Whatever you do -- if you do not retreat -- will result in a fiasco." ( The captain has grown increasingly pessimistic: "Any detailed study of an alien technology was futile. Its fragments, like pieces of a broken mirror, would not yield a coherent picture; they were the indistinct result, only, of the thing that had shattered...
After 25 years, Pfeiffer thinks it is time for his own studies of the fiasco to be made public. "Kirkpatrick's order to destroy the documents was outrageous," he commented last week. "What's to say the CIA's records on the Iran-contra matter won't disappear the same...
...standard nuclear explosion, which would vaporize the pellets and barrel, this one would spray the pellets through space at speeds up to 100 times that of a high-velocity rifle bullet. These pellets could not only burst the decoy balloons that would accompany a swarm of warheads but also destroy incoming missiles before their warheads were released...
...have roared back. Thatcher's triumphant Moscow trip, contrasted with Labor Leader Neil Kinnock's failed venture to Washington, gave the government a sharp boost in April. Labor's demand that Britain scrap its nuclear arsenal and ban American nuclear weapons and bases, a stance the U.S. claims would destroy NATO, continues to cut deeply into the party's support. So have fierce intraparty ideological rivalries between moderates and the militant left. The quarreling allowed the Conservatives to jump into a lead of between 10 and 15 points. A midweek poll gave the Tories 44% support, the Labor Party...
...sincerity of that proposal is on trial. Last week the Soviets submitted a draft treaty at arms talks in Geneva that calls for the elimination of both American and Soviet medium-range Euromissiles in the 600- to-3,000-mile range. In addition, Moscow offered to destroy all its shorter- range Euromissiles in the 300-to-600-mile range. The Europeans thus find themselves being asked to accept a deal that gives them more than they bargained for. "We said we wanted cuts," mused a top NATO official. "Now we've been invited to put our missiles where our mouths...