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...placed on conveyor belts that carry them to storage. Then, when they are needed for assembly, an operator has only to push a button to transfer them to the work station, either by moving belts or by vehicles guided by wires embedded in the floor. In some cases, robots attach parts to circuit boards...
...Administration fared no better last week in a clumsy last-ditch effort to increase U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens agreed to attach a request for $21 million for the rebels to a bill being considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide funds that would help poor people pay their fuel bills. The backfiring tactic was devised by top White House Aides James Baker and Richard Darman. Even some Republicans on the Republican-controlled committee were outraged by the stratagem, which would have forced Senators opposed to funding the Nicaraguan contras to vote...
Washington rejects an attach...
Last week it was Washington's turn to throw a somewhat ungraceful feint that left all involved feigning outrage. On the very day he was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles, the State Department rejected the visa application of Oleg Yermishkin, Moscow's designated attaché to the Summer Games. Yermishkin, who served as a first secretary at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1973 to 1977, was later tabbed as having been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles...
...equivalent of arthritis. It could not adequately move its "wrist." The problem effectively scuttled the plan to lift SPAS out of the cargo bay and rotate it slowly in space at the end of the arm. While SPAS simulated Solar Max's spin, McCandless was supposed to attach himself to it with a specially designed pin. Unable to cure the arm's ailment, however, the astronauts could do no more than practice the maneuver on a nonrotating satellite. When McCandless gunned the jets on his MMU, the pin held firmly in place, and a pleased Mission Control insisted...