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...launch the ferry ship toward a rendezvous with the orbiting space station. The cracks may have developed when the rocket's fuel tanks were filled, enormously increasing the weight on the fins. Exposed to Florida's salty air, the fins may have been weakened by corrosion. To avert a calamitous accident after liftoff, NASA officials ordered all the fins replaced with spares rushed in from the Saturn assembly facility at Michaud, La. Hopeful that the replacement would take only a few days, NASA rescheduled the launch...
...hearings on Ford simultaneously with its impeachment inquiry. While no timetable was set, the Democratic majority wants to cushion the impact of possible impeachment by keeping the White House in Republican hands and assuring the continuation of Nixon's general foreign and domestic policies. Ford's elevation also would avert a bitter partisan fight over succession; Speaker Albert has no longing for the presidency. The Senate Rules Committee had also decided to move promptly on Ford, awaiting only a full background check by 70 FBI agents before setting hearings...
Nixon made himself more visible Thursday than he'd been for a week, if not equally as silent. His right-hand man, Kissinger, declared that the mobilization was necessary to avert a Soviet threat to move troops into the Middle East unilaterally in order to enforce the cease-fire...
Harvard Police have stepped up protective measures to avert any possible increase in crime. Police recently instituted a student security patrol. Six students are on patrol along with the usual number of police. "We need as many eyes as we can get," Kenny said...
...mineral resources, agricultural production, cheap energy, effectiveness of population control, etc., the computer yielded the same results. It pointed to a global crisis marked by great famines, depletion of natural resources and disastrous pollution of the seas and atmosphere. Only drastic restrictions on all types of economic growth could avert the calamity, he insisted...