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...better suited to the cold waters of the South Atlantic than the navy's minesweepers. Moreover, the fishing boats are designed to travel long distances and are equipped with fish-detecting sonar equipment that is also capable of tracking enemy ships. One of the trawlers hastily unloaded a cargo of mackerel last week, then left for the battle zone...
...Bakker's faith in God and man, though reduced to the proportions of cars and boats, is not based on greed. Like the cargo cults, the South Sea islanders who worshipped the army transport planes that bought unimaginable riches of K-rations and surplus hardware, the Bakkers grasp best the material manifestations of the divine. Welfare checks number not among such miracles: "Why can't man throw money at his problems? Because God wants things to be in accord with His will... We're tired of all the hype. We want to go back to old foundations." When God speaks...
When Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan 2½ years ago, U.S. longshoremen took characteristically direct action. Calling the Soviets "international bully boys," they refused to unload ships bearing Russian cargo. Allied International, a Boston-based importer of Russian wood products, lost money as a result, and the company sued the International Longshoremen's Association. Last week a unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Allied that the I.L.A. had engaged in a boycott that was illegal under federal labor laws designed "to protect neutral parties, the helpless victims of quarrels that do not concern them at all." Allied had been hurt...
TRANSPORTATION. Before the President arrived, three cargo planes hauled to Barbados three armored limousines for his motorcades, four armored cars for the Secret Service, and four Marine helicopters-one for Reagan, one for the press, and two in case the others broke down. There were spare parts, of course, and even two fire engines flown from the U.S. to stand by at the airport as Reagan landed. Air Force One was followed, as always, by a back-up jet and a press plane. On a trip like the one to Barbados, 150 Air Force and other personnel go along...
Nine so-called pathfinder experiments, all but one stored in the cargo bay, measured the shuttle's environment as a prelude to future scientific work aboard the ship. Some 96 seeds and seedlings were kept in Columbia's cabin to see how they would grow in conditions of weightlessness. Other instruments studied the shuttle's electrical characteristics, the effect of the solar wind and the impact of micrometeorites, stray particles floating through space. One of the most complex of these experiments was a 350-lb. automated lab called the plasma diagnostics package. Held aloft and moved about...