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Suddenly, the beeps stopped coming. Soviet scientists last week lost track of one of their nation's most highly touted space projects: Phobos 2, an unmanned craft launched last July to dispatch two landing probes onto the Martian moon Phobos. Repeated attempts to re-establish contact were fruitless. A companion vessel had been lost in space last August. The two spacecraft were part of the longtime Soviet push to explore Mars, an effort that Moscow has several times invited the U.S. to join. Although Phobos 2 had managed to send back information on the Martian atmosphere, magnetic field and environment...
Well, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, Harvard's a skating and shooting team--with a style almost like the play of Coach Doug Woog's Golden Gophers...
Kicker on the front page of the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch Thursday...
...Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch mentioned several times Harvard was appearing in its second championship game. The Crimson was actually appearing in its third title tilt...
Another heavy blow in the '80s was deregulation of rail, truck, bus and airline service, along with the breakup of the Bell system. These changes permitted corporations to abandon service or increase rates in thousands of small towns. H.E. ("Ned") Valentine, owner and editor of the Clay Center Dispatch (circ. 3,800), finds the outcome ironic: "Both Presidents Carter and Reagan espoused small-town American values. Both were admired for it. But Carter's deregulation program, amplified by eight years of Reagan, has taken its toll here...