A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER You may have noticed the change in this month's masthead. As SPAN's eighth editor, Guy E. Olson, is in place and has taken charge. I want to take this opportunity to welcome him aboard and to introduce him to you. Guy graduated from my alma mater, Southern Illinois University, in 1965 with a science degree in communications and went right into the Peace Corps, teaching English in Iran. When he returned to the United States, he was invited to stay on with the Peace Corps, traveling around the country to talk with university students about joining the volunteer program. He then became a staff correspondent for United Press International for about four years, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he met his wife to be, Dian, a native of Iran. In 1973, Guy began his career with the United States Information Agency, the parent organization in Washington, D.C., for USIS. After working on the wirelessfileand moving up to publications, he was posted for four years in Vienna, Austria, where he edited several magazines that were distributed in Eastern Europe. From 1980 to 1987, he worked on America magazine in Washington, rising from text editor to deputy editor inchief.For the past three years, Guy has been editor in chiefof Al Majal, a monthly in Arabic distributed from Tunis, Tunisia, where, by the way, outgoing SPAN editor Bill McCurdy is headed. Guy and Dian made a brieftour of northern India in November 1989and say they are "looking forward to exploring extensively the rich and diverse cultures of this marvelousland." Dian isa professional family and drug-abuse counselor. They have two sons attending universities in the United States. The Middle East has been in the headlines for almost two months now. What has not made big news, however, is the emergence, in this crisis, of a new working relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. For the first time since World War II, the two superpowers are arrayed on the same side. The swiftness with which the U.N. Security Council passed five resolutions against Iraq in as many weeks showsthat the two are working together to bring peace to the region. The emergency Helsinki summit on the Middle-East crisis cemented the operational partnership that President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had explored earlier in Malta and Washington, D.C. In Helsinki the two closed ranks ever more firmly. (The full text of the joint statement issued by the two leaders after the one-day Helsinki summit and excerpts from the joint press conference they held after the meeting appear elsewhere in this issue.) After the Helsinki meeting President Bush noted that there had been an evolution of "mutual understanding" over the yearsandwithout that "there wouldn't have been this cooperative feeling" between Washington and Moscow. "I feelwe're moving on the right track," he said of the relationship. The President acknowledged that differences remain. But the very fact that they can talk to each other with candor is important to avoid misunderstandings. As a result ofthat candor, the President said, "common ground surges ahead of...differences. We will continue to cooperate. " President Gorbachev said that the summit sessions "enrich our relationship" and "increase our trust." And when "trust is engendered" between superpower leaders, cooperation becomes possible. As President Bush told ajoint session of the U.S. Congress, "We stand at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times...a new world order can emerge." -L.J.B.
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Road to Eternity Saying it With Statistics An interview With C.R. Rao by Gayatri Viswanath
18 Capitalism as aMoral Force
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Space of My Own
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Focus On ... The Chemistry of Teamwork by Paul Chance Resolving a World Crisis On the Lighter Side How the West Was Really Won by JamesA. Cox From the Master's Archives by Paul Goldberger Sticking Your Neck Out by David Brand Minding the Store
Front cover: AtWete Roger Chart~r, who lost his legs in an accident, has now become the first American amputee to run, thanks to his high-tech legs made of space age alloys, , composites, polyethylene and plastic. Advanced materials such as these a'rereshaping our lives. See story on pages 2-11. Back cover: One of the exhibits at a show held earlier this year of Frank Lloyd Wright's .drawin,gs-Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, N.Y.; 1943. Concept sketch. Pencil and color pencil on tracing paper; 76 x 63.5 em. Copyright Š The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1962. See also pages 42-44.
Publisher, Leonard J. Baldyga; Editor, Guy E. Olson Managing Editor, Himadri Dhanda; Associate Managing Editor, Krishan Gabrani; Senior Editor, Arulla Dasgupta; Copy Editors, A. Venkata Narayana, Snigdha Goswami; Editorial Assistants, Rocque Fernandes, Rashmi Goel; Photo Editor, Avinash Pasricha; Art Director, Nand Katyal; Associate ArtDirectQr, Kanti Roy; Artist, Hemant Bhatnagar; Production Assistant, Sanjay Pokhriyal; Circulation Manager, Y.P. Pandhi; Photographic Services: USIS Photographic Services Unit; Research Services: USIS Documentation Services; American Center Library, New Delhi.
Photograpbs: Front cover-eharles O'Rear, West Light. Inside front cover-courtesy National Trust for Historic Preservation. l-Avinash Pasricha. 2-3-Charles O'Rear, West Light except¡ 3 bottom courtesy Anderson Clinic, Alexandria, Virginia. 4illustration by Nand Katya1.6-7-eharles O'Rear, West Light, except 6 right by Daniel C. Alpert, courtesy Sandia National Laboratories. 8, l(}--illustrations by Nand Katyal. 12Pat Maera, courtesy Mrs. James Jones. lS,..-courtesy C.R. Rao. 2I-Nora Prentice; inset & 22-23-eourtesy Susan Leopold. 24-2S-Lee Sampson, courtesy John Weber Gallery, New York, except 24 left courtesy Susan Leopold. 26-A vinash Pasricha. 2~Dan Ford . ConnollY/Picture Group. 36-37, 39-The Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas; 38, 39 bottom-illustrations by Hemant Bhatllagar. 4O-41-Santa Fe Industries Inc. and The Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. 42-43-copyright The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, courtesy Phoenix Art Museum. 44-Paul Almasy. 46inside back cover-Barry Fitzgerald. Back cover-copyright The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1962.' .
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