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...space program that, in manned flight at least, has far outstripped its U.S. counterpart. American experts said the Kremlin had precipitately scheduled the mission as a gesture of Soviet-Afghan friendship before Soviet troops complete their pullout from Afghanistan early next year. The hurried launch gave the three- man crew only six months to prepare as a team for a voyage that normally requires a full year of intensive training. Soviet space officials later conceded that the cosmonauts may have "lost vigilance" during the flight...
Lion Coach Larry McElreavy is winless as Columbia's coach (0-20, 0-2 against Harvard), but he'll have a decent crew at his command Saturday...
SEATTLE--I was on a vacation with my parents in Maine in 1984 when the U.S. Olympic women's rowing team won the gold medal. I remember watching the final race on television in a hotel lobby. The U.S. crew fell behind early, but came back to win by two feet...
This time investigators suspect engine failure. Cockpit tape recordings show that the crew was talking about such trouble moments before impact. One hypothesis is that the left engine stalled out, though the plane should have been able to take off with its remaining two. Another is that spinning wheels and blades of one of the jet's turbines blew apart, sending shrapnel flying into a second engine and making takeoff impossible. The Delta jet was powered by three Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines; some models in the series were targeted by the Government for mandatory inspections and repairs in 1985, after...
Widespread public support for the students as they bravely stood their ground against pepper-gas-firing riot police transformed Roh the Chun Puppet into Roh the Democrat. On June 29 Roh invited a television crew to remain behind after he had addressed a routine meeting of the D.J.P. To the amazement of those present, Roh announced that he would resign from all his party positions unless the Chun government agreed to eight democratic reforms, including direct presidential elections, freedom of the press and pardons for political prisoners. The June 29 Declaration, as it is now known, stunned his party...