Word: armed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cargo, three communications satellites, and promptly ran into trouble. As they were attempting to temporarily open the sunshield on AUSSAT, an Australian satellite, the shield snagged on AUSSAT's antenna and stuck. Although the astronauts managed to nudge the sunshield completely open with Discovery's 50-ft. robot arm, NASA decided it was too risky to close the screen again; if it could not be reopened, the satellite would be useless in orbit...
...little effort in wooing India, a nonaligned but friendly country. When Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visited Moscow in May, Gorbachev appeared in person at the door of Gandhi's Kremlin apartment ten minutes before they were to begin talks in another part of the Kremlin. He threw an arm around Gandhi and said, "Spring is here. I suggest we skip the limousines and walk to our meeting. You and I can take care of the protocol boys." The two later signed economic agreements providing an immediate Soviet credit of $1.2 billion to India and paving the way for scientific...
...Third World leaders, Gorbachev has shown the iron teeth rather than the broad smile. He told Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq that continued Pakistani assistance to guerrillas battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan would affect relations with the U.S.S.R. "in the most negative way." Said Zia: "Gorbachev was twisting my arm." Zia did not yield...
...Laxalt's decision final? There was no indication to the contrary, but Nevada remembers how Democratic Senator Alan Bible, another of the state's political institutions, announced he was quitting in the mid-1950s, only to reverse himself after arm-twisting by then Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Laxalt may genuinely intend to retire, says a Las Vegas insider, but "what if Nevada holds the Senate balance and the call comes next spring: 'I need...
...composed of Bell Laboratories, the old Western Electric manufacturing arm under the name of AT&T Technologies, AT&T Communications for long distance, and AT&T Information Systems. Based in Morristown, N.J., Information Systems makes telephones and computers. Last year it had sales of about $10 billion. Atis, as it is known for short, is the leading edge of AT& T's attempt to compete with IBM and other computer companies...