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...China policy of his former boss President Nixon. Particularly since Watergate, journalists have attained star quality, becoming part of the panoply of fictional heroes and villains. Indeed, Regrets Only hit Washington at the same time as the movie version of Heartburn, Nora Ephron's fictionalized account of the breakup of her marriage to Watergate Sleuth Carl Bernstein...
...Joseph Kerwin, director of Space and Life Sciences at the Johnson Space Center, wrote in last week's report, "The forces on the orbiter at breakup were probably too low to cause death or serious injury . . . the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following orbiter breakup." The maximum acceleration forces felt by the astronauts as their cabin was blown away from the explosion--estimated at 12 to 20 Gs, or 12 to 20 times the force of gravity--were "quite brief," Kerwin added, and "survivable." Even if the sealed crew compartment had ruptured and depressurized...
...astronauts probably survived the explosionand breakup of the shuttle orbiter and could havehad 6 to 15 seconds of "useful consciousness"inside the crew compartment after the blast, saidDr. Joseph Kerwin, an astronaut-physician whoinvestigated the cause of death for the crew...
...recently as July 17, NASA said its reviewsof the voice tape indicated that the crew wasunaware of the events preceding the breakup of theorbiter...
Ever since the breakup of AT&T two years ago, the seven regional phone companies known as Baby Bells have enjoyed an amicable relationship with their onetime parent. Last week it was announced that the kids would gang up for the first time against the former Ma Bell. The Baby Bells have joined with Martin Marietta, the aerospace manufacturer, to bid against AT&T for an enormous prize: a federal telecommunications contract worth some $4.5 billion over ten years. AT&T has been the leading contractor on the account since 1963. The contract, which involves upgrading the Government phone system...