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...questions of the interviewer, often appallingly inane, come to us as interruptions, unsolicited intrusions. We resent the seemingly gratuitous impetus, the impulse that prompts the question: we hold our breath as if for an expected blow. Barthes' voice moves ahead, seeks us out, and it is this trajectory that abort, itself, fails when the other voice, harse, discordant, "somewhat sadistic," breaks in. If there is place for the reader, the privileged spectator in this staging without a stage, it lies in the crying of the question, "how do you know when he has finished...
Among the protestors' demands are that the South African government release 21 people arrested for violating a state security law; that the Reagan Administration abort its policy of "constructive engagement"--behind-the-scenes diplomacy--instead of public ostracism to pressure the white minority government in South Africa to implement reform, and that organizations divest themselves of stock holdings in companies that do business in South Africa...
...Wacker was quoted correctly as saying. "Those [students who would not abort] are probably the women who have never been pregnant," I find his remarks even more disturbing. Should indeed women who have experienced the sensation of a new life growing within them be the most prone to end that life, he has given a sorry commentary on the moral sensibility of Radcliffe women. I believe abortion to be justifiable under a number of circumstances (rape, for example). I would hope, however, that Radcliffe women would think twice before automatically deciding that a "goal-oriented" view of life...
Suddenly Hess interrupted in a flat, unemotional voice, "We have an engine cutoff." Seconds later, NASA officials watched in helpless dismay while their proud young ship sputtered to stillness like a jalopy running out of gas. Concluded Hess stoically: "We have an abort." Nor was that the worst of it. As the astronauts lay strapped in their seats, awaiting instructions, hydrogen gas gathering in the ship's main-engine area burst into flames below them, shooting a tiny inferno through the engine pit. Sprinklers on the launch pad immediately flooded the pit with several thousand gallons of water, dousing...
...liquid oxygen was supposed to be pumped forcefully through the engine's main fuel line into a central combustion chamber, where it would ignite. But the 10 ¼ in. long, 74-lb. fuel valve faltered a fraction of a second in opening, prompting the central computer system to abort the entire mission. Of the three main engines, only No. 2 had been fully ignited. During its 1.7 sec. ignition, hydrogen gas leaked out and exploded, charring the shuttle's body flap...