Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Racing toward Saturn at 54,000 m.p.h.-20 times as fast as a speeding bullet-the 1,800-lb. spacecraft came within a cosmic hair of the planet's stormy cloud tops, clearing them by 63,000 miles. Then it plunged downward behind the huge gaseous sphere and passed through a large gap near the edge of the thin disc of icy debris that forms Saturn's multi-hued rings. Finally, like a pebble in a great celestial slingshot, it was sent hurtling off toward Uranus on a new course created by the powerful pull of Saturn...
...resupplied. To make matters worse, Florida has been suffering through a decade of sparse rainfall, which has dried up many swamps, at least temporarily. This year the drought is so severe that Governor Bob Graham declared South Florida a disaster area and approved plans for $450,000 worth of cloud seeding...
...more. At precisely 11:25 p.m. E.D.T. next Tuesday, Aug. 25, a second spacecraft, Voyager 2, will finally reach Saturn after a four-year, 1.4 billion-mile flight. Ducking behind the planet (as seen from earth), it will skim to within 63,000 miles of the planet's cloud tops. Then Voyager 2 will plunge through the plane of Saturn's rings, brushing precariously close to that rocky debris. All the while, its cameras and instruments will be working furiously to take advantage of every precious second of the encounter...
...automatic-rifle fire echoed in the cloud-draped mountains along the El Salvador-Honduras border, U.S.-supplied "Huey" transport helicopters banked low over steep, forested gorges, then deposited heavily armed troops at key locations on the forbidding terrain. According to eyewitnesses, the elite Atlacatl Brigade, some 800 to 1,000 strong, landed near the village of Valladolid, Honduras, violating Honduran airspace and territory as local soldiers looked on impassively. The invaders' mission: to engage leftist Salvadoran guerrilla forces entrenched in pockets along the demilitarized border zone established after El Salvador's four-day war in 1969 with Honduras...
...thing was certain: whether the flight was prompted by ideology or a personal disillusionment, the Sandinistas had lost their nation al hero on the eve of their second anniver sary in power - an event that will be celebrated July 19 under the cloud of his departure...