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This time, by golly, no one would call George Bush timid. Quite the contrary, the President made a rare appearance as Bush the riverboat gambler. By sending a high-level delegation to Beijing to confer with Chinese authorities who only six months earlier had ordered the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators near Tiananmen Square, Bush knew he would stir up a hurricane of outraged protest. And for what? The slender chance that China would respond with concessions that could begin to melt the ice in U.S. relations with the world's most populous nation...
...Six adventurers reach the South Pole by dogsled, but that is just the halfway mark in a journey across Antarctica. Admiral Peary's claim to have made it to the North Pole gets fresh support...
...Here we are! Hooray!" Those were modest words for a momentous achievement. They came in a radio message from a six-man team of adventurers and scientists that reached the South Pole last week after a 3,213-km (1,992-mile) trek across Antarctica by dogsled. The expedition was the first to reach the pole by dogsled since Roald Amundsen beat Robert Scott there 78 years ago. But impressive as the feat is, it marks only the midpoint of an even more ambitious journey: a 6,450-km (4,000-mile) campaign that would be the first dogsled trip...
Still, it is the classic clash of man against nature that has inspired the most interest. The journey began smoothly on July 27, when the six explorers, 36 dogs and three sleds, each loaded with nearly 450 kg (1,000 lbs.) of food and gear, left the base of the Seal Nunataks mountains and started gliding across the Antarctic Peninsula. But Antarctica's ferocity proved to be stunning. Although it is now summer there, windblown snow has produced near- zero visibility, and frozen drifts have periodically caused the heavily < laden sleds to tip over...
...report quoted a committee report from the 1948 meeting as saying, "there is no scientific evidence that it is an unwarranted hazard to continue the present process for six weeks, during which steps will be taken vigorously to control the hazard." The control measures apparently were not fully successful...