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...Heimert says he met with Blacks, but he disagrees with SASC on whom he should meet. Heimert says he consulted with Black educators informing them about the program, pointing to a meeting in Cape Town with Black professors and a meeting with members of the Soweto Parents Council, a community effort to educate Blacks in that segregated township. "I meet with educators," when involved in an educational project, not politicians, Heimerts argues...
...Even at that point, however, a senior Thiokol official at Cape Canaveral refused to endorse the recommendation," the Post quoted an unidentified commission member as saying. "This shook us to the socks. We were unprepared for it. It changed the whole tone of the investigation...
...presidential commission has been given four months to report on its findings to both NASA and Reagan. Its investigators, as well as those of NASA, will examine the more than twelve tons of debris recovered from the Atlantic Ocean east and north of Cape Canaveral. The partly intact casings of both boosters apparently have been located on the ocean floor, although their positions and high seas last week hampered their certain identification and recovery. While both rockets had been reported blown up by radio signals within 30 seconds of the accident, NASA belatedly explained that only the nose cones...
...Others were fresher, including Astronaut Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman in space. They and nine other experts were appointed last week to a presidential commission charged with finding out why the space shuttle Challenger had blown up 73 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, killing its seven-member crew. Without even waiting to assemble a staff, the panel promptly went to work, first grilling top NASA officials in public, then probing more deeply in closed sessions...
...appeal of an island is older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...