Word: optional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countered that "there is no reason to remain in the government," but invited Shamir to "retract" the appended conditions, which include barring East Jerusalem's 140,000 Palestinian residents from participating in the elections. The Bush Administration signaled its irritation by reviving talk of an international peace conference, an option repellent to Shamir. In a New York Times interview, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the Likud stipulations a "deadly blow," but he did not torpedo the plan...
...lunar habitat are too heavy to lift from earth and will have to be assembled in space. The station will also be needed for assembling a bulky Mars vehicle and studying the effects of long-term space flight. But a single station may not be the best option. Several experts have suggested breaking it down into smaller units. One such station, the Industrial Space Facility, has already been designed by a Houston firm, Space Industries Inc. At $900 million, it could be launched by 1994 and take over most of the Freedom station's proposed experiments in space manufacturing. Another...
...billion a year. That will be hard in an era of budget deficits. But there is support for a Mars mission in both the House and the Senate. If the President comes out strongly for the mission, Congress should be able to find a way to fund it. One option: to siphon the money from Star Wars and other questionable defense programs...
...China's bloody crackdown on students in Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong has been looking back to London for reassurance that the same thing won't happen there when Beijing assumes control of the crown colony in 1997. At the least, Hong Kong's 5.7 million Chinese want the option of moving to Britain. Last week British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe was dispatched to the colony to allay fears, but his visit only managed to make a bad situation worse...
...Darman argued that the cost did not justify the health and environmental benefits. Bush attended three of those meetings and called environmentalists and industrialists into the White House to present their cases directly to him. Finally, White House chief of staff John Sununu took three 30-page single-spaced option papers to Camp David on Saturday, June 10. He and the President went over them line by line on Sunday, making the final decisions...