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...Organization, could be heard clearly on Jordanian television last week as King Hussein benignly received the embraces, one after another, of 265 P.L.O. guerrillas who had just arrived in his country after a 20-hour trip from Beirut via Cyprus. The guerrillas responded eagerly to their warm welcome, bearing aloft a portrait of Hussein that they had found in one of the rooms at the Mafraq airbase where the homecoming took place. "Long live King Hussein!" the guerrillas cheered resoundingly...
...shuttle must prove it can do the job it was built for: hoisting. satellites into orbit. The critical test will come during Columbia's next flight, scheduled for Nov. 11, when it will carry aloft two communications satellites-one American, the other Canadian. And even if Columbia passes this milestone, other questions will persist. NASA's initial justification for building a vehicle that wedded the technology of planes and rockets was to reduce the cost of space travel. However, the calculations depended on projections of extremely heavy traffic into space, with flights as frequent as every two weeks...
...they were criticized by every Arab state for their failure to fight wholeheartedly for the Palestinians and their willingness to make a separate ceasefire. The situation in Syria has been complicated by the arrival in Damascus last week of some 2,000 Iranian volunteers, wearing green headbands and holding aloft pictures of Ayatullah Khomeini. Their mission: to help Syria wage war on Israel?despite the arms aid that Israel provided the Khomeini regime in its war against Iraq. There were reports that a total of 50,000 Iranians was expected in Syria. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorasani last...
Britain's aerial weakness over the Falklands is the task force's Achilles' heel. Rear Admiral Woodward is extremely limited in the number of aircraft he can send aloft for combat patrols and raids on the islands while continuing to protect his fleet. That weakness, more than any other factor, might hamper a British invasion of the islands. To help beef up the British air effort further, the government late last week dispatched long-range Nimrod reconnaissance planes to the South Atlantic. Nimrods, the British version of the AWACS, can give British ships warning of enemy aircraft...
...conditions of weightlessness. Other instruments studied the shuttle's electrical characteristics, the effect of the solar wind and the impact of micrometeorites, stray particles floating through space. One of the most complex of these experiments was a 350-lb. automated lab called the plasma diagnostics package. Held aloft and moved about by the mechanical arm, it measured the electromagnetic fields and charged gases around the orbiter...