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...following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7½-ton cylinder built by Hughes Aircraft's Space & Communications Group flipped out of Discovery's cargo bay exactly as planned. But the satellite's rocket failed to ignite, leaving the huge canister stuck in a 200-mile-high earth orbit, well below the 22,300- mile-high geosynchronous path it was supposed to follow...
When Nancy went off to visit the aircraft carrier America last week, she told the men, "I hate to drop names, but last night when I kissed your Commander in Chief goodbye, he asked that I pass along a message. He said, 'Nancy, will you tell them how proud I am of them? How often I think about them?' " That message is at once so stagy as to be suspect and still so obviously corny as to be genuine. The actor and the man have become indistinguishable or, as Father Hartke would put it, they always were, we just would...
...largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." JANE FONDA, actress, apologizing for her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site in protest against the U.S. war effort, in an interview with U.S. television program 60 Minutes...
...into "con-sip-shull aht-wook") and interviewing them about whatever it is they do. We meet such unsung heroes as Tony Drawbridge, a propmaker who handcrafts fake animal poop, and Ngaire Woods, the production's plane spotter, who sits on a hill with binoculars and watches for passing aircraft that might disrupt a shot. There are some naysayers. "I can't believe they get to see me in costume and makeup," says a visibly shaken Jack Black, who plays Carl Denham. "Isn't that, like, verboten...
...Nothing galvanizes politicians like a new military threat, however. The antisecession law appears to have muted objections to the U.S. arms deal. Taiwan should eventually be able to augment its tiny submarine fleet, and add more Patriot antimissile batteries and antisub aircraft. The hardware won't be enough to win an arms race, but it sends a signal that Taiwan is prepared to stand up for itself...