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...Scarab 1 is 11 ft. long, weighs approximately 2½ tons and is equipped with sophisticated sonar, as well as television cameras with zoom lenses and high-intensity lights that illuminate the ocean floor. A team of eight engineers from London, working four to a shift, controlled the submersible from aboard the cable ship by firing electric and hydraulic thrusters to maneuver the craft, which was attached to a 10,000-ft. umbilical cord. Scarab 1's cameras and mechanical arms were also operated electronically as the engineers tracked its progress on TV screens...
...downed plane's voice recorder on the ocean floor, 6,700 ft. below. Maneuvering the sub closer by firing small bursts from its thrusters, they gingerly extended one of Scarab's mechanical arms so that it carefully picked up the black box. The submersible was then slowly hoisted aboard the Léon Thevenin, clutching its prize...
...unrest in the country's largest black township (pop. an estimated 1.2 million) began on Wednesday. Hundreds of students stormed aboard six municipal buses and demanded to be taken to a magistrates court where 105 black youths were being charged with holding an illegal demonstration at the home of Edward Kunene, Soweto's mayor. The students sang and chanted outside the courthouse until mounted police cleared the area with tear gas and rubber bullets. About 500 of the protesters were arrested but then released after the bus company declined to press hijacking charges. The students soon joined thousands of other...
...just been chosen to be the first teacher to voyage into space. "It's not often that a teacher is at a loss for words," she said after Vice President George Bush pronounced her "the teacher with the right stuff." A field of 10,000 applicants for a seat aboard the space shuttle Challenger was narrowed to ten educators, who apparently became a close-knit group during testing early this month in Houston. "When that shuttle goes, there may be one body," said McAuliffe, choking up, "but there are ten souls that I am taking with me." McAuliffe, 36, married...
...claims Petty Officer First Class Robert Jackson, 26, who served ten months aboard the San Diego-based carrier. Working as an auditor on the ship, he accumulated about 1,100 pages of notes and documents on what he describes as appalling acts of waste, fraud, auditing forgeries and altered books in the handling of spare parts and other equipment. The system was so lax, Jackson charges, that when bookkeepers in various departments feared they were exceeding their budgets on supplies, they simply neglected to enter further purchases in the computerized record system. Jackson contends that he examined twelve departments last...