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...Frederick van Zyl Slabbert called Botha "an illusionary figure of reform" and his promises "vague mumbo jumbo." The P.F.P. gained nine seats in the new parliament, bringing its total to 26. They also dealt the Nationalists their worst single blow, defeating Minister of Industries Dawie de Villiers in his Cape Town constituency. It was the first time an incumbent National Party minister had failed to be reelected...
...that the country will do anything the President wants it to do. But the mandate was to rid the country of an ineffective President and to bring the economy under control." Reported Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds, a liberal Democrat, after a whirlwind series of meetings in his relatively conservative Cape Cod district: People are saying, 'Hey, wait a minute. This is not what I voted...
...tiles were gouged and chipped, apparently by pebbles and other desert debris kicked up by the wheels after touchdown. After an initial going-over at Edwards Air Force Base, the shuttle will be placed atop a modified Boeing 747 for a slow, two-day piggyback return to Cape Canaveral, where the ship will be refitted for a second launch, probably in September. The astronauts will be Joe Engle, 48, and Richard Truly, 43, this mission's back-up crew...
...Soviet space program command, which is military and rarely announces a space launch beforehand, civilian NASA has carried out its shots in the full glare of publicity. But under the terms of NASA'S new partnership with the military, security is being tightened at such key facilities as Cape Canaveral and the Johnson Space Center in Houston in anticipation of military launches. Military observers are now regular participants at shuttle planning sessions and have their own facilities inside Mission Control. At the height of the shuttle's development problems, there was even talk that the task of getting...
...netwomen took on Brown yesterday, but had more trouble locating their opponents then beating them. After visiting Cape Cod on the pretense of taking a short cut to Providence, the Crimson arrived too late to warm up, but still managed to breeze past the home team...