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...Blankstein, the honorary consul for South Africa. After a brief shoving match with police, three protesters gained entry to Blankstein's building and met with him. They emerged 24 minutes later with his signed resignation. In San Francisco, members of a longshoremen's union refused to handle cargo from South Africa carried by a Dutch ship until shipowners got a federal judge to order them...
Only the squawk of voices breaks the extraterrestrial spell. As Joseph Allen, 47, and his fellow skywalker, Navy Commander Dale A. Gardner, 36, wrestle a disabled telecommunications satellite into the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery, they sound like a pair of movers trying to squeeze a 10-ft. piano through a 9-ft. door. "Joe, I assume you're comfortable there," says Gardner. "Not very," replies Allen. "Sorry to be taking so long," apologizes Gardner. "It's harder than it looks, just floating around." Back at mission control, a NASA spokesman quickly reminds reporters...
...first retrieval, maneuvered the stray toward the arm. There, in a foot restraint, Allen waited to grab the antenna on Westar with his right hand, while his left gripped the antenna support. Gardner cut loose, thrust over to the bay, stored his pack and tethered himself to the cargo bay. Meantime, Fisher gingerly began to reel in Allen and the satellite until Gardner could reach up to remove the stinger. He could then proceed directly to the remaining berthing steps. The only newly tricky part was in keeping the second satellite from banging into the first. "Stop...
...time the Bakuriani unloaded its crated cargo and returned to sea, Washington was persuaded that MiG-21s had not been delivered. One reason, indicated by Shultz, was a Soviet assurance to the contrary. Another was the information gleaned from the rash of U.S. spy-plane flights, more probably low-flying F-4 reconnaissance jets than the superfast, supersophisticated SR-71s claimed by the Sandinistas (no sonic boom from an SR-71 can be heard when the aircraft flies, as it can on spy missions, at an altitude of 15 miles or more...
...switch in reasoning seemed to reflect the Administration's recurring tendency to speak with different voices about Nicaragua. Privately, some Pentagon sources attributed the hyping of concern over the Bakuriani and its cargo to officials at the White House and National Security Council. The State Department also expressed frustration over the way the MiG issue had materialized: on his way to the OAS meeting, Shultz characterized the original leak as "a criminal act." For his part, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger coolly deplored the "hysteria" that had arisen over the incident, even as the Pentagon provided the varying rationales...