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...rehearsal for a June mission during which the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to become the first to dock at Mir. At Discovery's controls on this mission: Captain Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot a U.S. spacecraft. Nineteen-year veteran Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov is also aboard. On a Soviet flight in 1983, he survived an explosion shortly after launch by catapaulting to the ground...
Congratulations to France's elite antiterrorist gendarmes for freeing the 173 hostages aboard the hijacked Air France jetliner [Algeria, Jan. 9] and to the other people who contributed to the rescue, even though three hostages were killed prior to the final assault. Nevertheless, it would be naive to say that the militant Armed Islamic Group will be discouraged from committing more acts of terrorism, since four Roman Catholic priests were murdered in Algeria shortly after the Airbus rescue. I fear that these killings might be a further step in the escalation of a new Algerian war, something we hoped would...
...dropoff" in ridership because of the crashes. At the same time, Robert Oaks, the retired Air Force general USAir hired as its safety chief in order to restore public confidence in the airline, rejected speculation that pilot error caused theSept. 8 USAir crashnear Pittsburgh that killed all 132 people aboard...
...would lead the Republican House that begins its work this week. But he hadn't planned on having strangers paw at his garments, nor on the intense public and press interest in his every casual utterance, nor on the spectacle of the President scrambling to pull himself aboard the Republican tax-cut bandwagon. Gingrich, who classifies most experiences as either neat or weird, pronounced these very weird. Yet he takes his new prominence quite seriously. On the morning after the Hilton speech, a rainy Saturday in mid-December, he met with a dozen of his top advisers and asked them...
...That guy is not going to last." One Pitts theory was that untested leaders could, with seemingly % innocent things, set off a slide into oblivion. In Pitts' view, Carter's hair change was too dramatic, suggesting self-adulation. And when Clinton had his $200 haircut from Beverly Hills' Christophe aboard Air Force One, Pitts predicted an image implosion because the new President would be viewed as indulgent and undignified...