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Democrats are regaling voters with distress stories, sometimes their own. Virginia Lieutenant Governor Richard J. Davis, who is running for the Senate, announced at a press conference last week that as a mortgage banker he has had to lay off 40% of his employees. Said Davis: "I know what the economy is doing. I see it firsthand." In Montana, Congressional Candidate Howard Lyman is emphasizing rather than downplaying the fact that he had to sign over his ranch to creditors right in the middle of his campaign to unseat Ron Marlenee. "I'm a victim of Reaganomics," Lyman tells...
...rugged that, short of heavenly help, finding them quickly seemed impossible. Yet through a miracle of the space age, the help came. On its regular sweep over western Canada, a Soviet satellite, equipped with special electronic "ears" to hear the beeps of small planes or ships in distress, picked up the downed aircraft's automatic emergency beacon and relayed the signals to an antenna outside Ottawa. There a computer quickly used them to obtain a navigational "fix" on the crash site. Within hours, a helicopter plucked the three men out of the wilderness, injured but alive...
...speedy rescue was the first real-life test of a new breed of satellites called SARSATS (for search and rescue satellites) that will be circling the planet in years to come. Carrying special receivers tuned to standard international distress frequencies, these electronic watchdogs will be able to locate troubled craft equipped with inexpensive beacons almost anywhere on earth. Beaming their information back to the ground through a network of dish-shaped antennas, they should ensure prompt rescues of, say, a junk in the South China Sea or a yachtsman rounding the Horn singlehanded...
...last of the joint programs that have survived the current chill between Washington and Moscow. One reason: it requires no transfers of hardware or technology. The only tools the satellites have in common is their electronic "language": they must all be tuned to the standard international radio frequencies for distress calls (121.5 and 243 megahertz). Though the U.S. and Canada tested such electronics on earlier American satellites, the first true U.S. SARSAT will not become operational until next February, when the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's latest Tiros weather satellite goes into orbit...
...teaching psychology and counseling at the Graduate School of Education for five years. She's suing Richard C. Atkinson, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego and former head of the National Science Foundation, saying he was guilty of "fraud and deceit" and "intentional infliction of emotional distress" during an affair he and Perry allegedly had between about 1976 and 1978. Atkinson denies any liason...