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...piling up fast for the oil companies. Last week Unocal posted a loss of $134.7 million for the fourth quarter of 1985. The company was hurt last year by the cost of fighting off Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens and by its money-losing oil-shale plant in Colorado. While several big oil companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Mobil, showed earnings gains in the past quarter, most petroleum experts see a lean future. Says Constantine Fliakos, who follows the industry for Merrill Lynch: "The last good news in the oil patch was the fourth-quarter results. We'll have...
...designate Jan. 28 of each year as a permanent National Teacher Recognition Day. Florida's Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson, who, like Garn, had flown on a shuttle, proposed that seven of the newly discovered moons of the planet Uranus each be named for one of Challenger's victims. Colorado Republican William Armstrong went a bit further, asking the Senate to name ten moons, adding the three Apollo astronauts who died in the 1967 launch-pad tragedy as well. Democratic Representative Mickey Leland of Texas urged that the "true heroes" all be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
...rich coffee fields, but his mind was on the stars, which he liked to examine through a telescope at Honolulu's Bishop Museum. The oldest of four children, Onizuka was a star athlete, an honor student and an Eagle Scout. He studied aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees. He then spent eight years as a test pilot and flight engineer with the Air Force. Onizuka taught courses at the elite Air Force test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in California before joining NASA as an astronaut candidate...
...Houston. But wherever he went, he kept memories and icons of his past. Before his first space flight, he presented the Mission Control staff with coffee beans and macadamia nuts from Hawaii. For last week's flight, he persuaded the staff to let him affix a University of Colorado emblem on a satellite that was to track Halley's comet. Onizuka also brought along his college ring. "He wears it whenever he flies," said his wife. Several years ago he visited his family's ancestral gravesite in Japan. The elderly priest of the Buddhist temple where the remains of Onizuka...
...said New York Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer. "What is coming will be like chopping off your hand." Pennsylvania Democrat William Gray, chairman of the House Budget Committee, spoke even more gorily to the New York Times of "the amputation of both arms in 1987," and Senator Gary Hart of Colorado predicted, "We will cut off our nose to spite the deficit...