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NASA officials refused to confirm or deny reports that a large section of the crew compartment had been located. Some photo analysts contend that what appears to be parts of the shuttle can be detected emerging from the catastrophic fireball just after the blast (see photo). The official reticence was understandable. Any such speculation would raise the grim possibility that death was not as mercifully quick for the stricken astronauts as has been widely assumed. Still, however painful the results, the search for all such evidence has to be pursued if the mystery of Challenger's demise...
Workfare's philosophical opponents see it as a sort of punishment for being poor. They contend that the vast majority of welfare recipients are young unwed mothers with few if any marketable skills, who are often forced to take demeaning, low-paying jobs under workfare. Critics question whether there is even enough work to go around for the programs' undereducated participants. Says California Democratic Assemblyman Tom Bates: "When Ronald Reagan says, 'Go to the want ads and look for jobs,' he doesn't point out that they're for electrical engineers and highly skilled people...
Less than a month later, a petition drive led by WRKO radio talk show host Jerry Williams has gathered enough signatures to challenge the law by referendum. Williams and his followers contend that the seatbelt law in fringes on citizens' personal rights...
Critics of the outgoing government of General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores contend that political kidnapings and killings, aimed mostly at peasants, union members and university students, persist. Families of the "disappeared" blame government security forces. Last week Cerezo announced that one of his first goals will be to clean up the security apparatus. He declared, "The army cannot limit the power of the head of the armed forces (the President), and if they try to do so, they will have to create a coup...
...heart of the controversy is UNESCO's Senegalese Director-General, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, who took over in 1974. Critics contend that under M'Bow, UNESCO has become anti-Western, citing, among other things, M'Bow's efforts to back groups like the Palestine Liberation Organization and to restrict media coverage of the Third World by creating devices like the so-called new world information order. The U.S. withdrew from UNESCO last year, and other countries have threatened to reconsider membership if changes are not made...