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...current defense scandal has no doubt contributed to Congress's stingy mood. In mid-June, subpoenas were issued and FBI agents staged surprise searches in more than three dozen homes and offices in twelve states. The 19 companies subpoenaed or searched, some of which are likely targets of the investigation, are a Who's Who of 19 defense contractors. Among them: Electronic Data Systems, Gould, Hazeltine, Litton, Loral, LTV, Martin Marietta, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Teledyne, Unisys and United Technologies. Since the raids, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., has been delving into charges that some of these defense contractors...
Among other Americans, however, the idea of a manned Mars mission is gaining momentum, despite the estimated $100 billion price tag for the undertaking. The venture has been endorsed by a dozen major publications, ranging from the New York Times to the New Republic. In a recent full-page advertisement in the Washington Post, the 125,000-member Planetary Society urged support for a manned mission. The ad listed the names of a glittering array of such prominent Americans as Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Utah Senator Jake Garn, Nobel Laureate Physicist Hans Bethe and Notre Dame's former president...
...there any real evidence that Martians existed? After peering through his telescope in 1877, Italian Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli (an uncle of the celebrated Paris couturiere) reported that he had charted several dozen canali linking dark areas on the surface of Mars. These canali, the astronomer wrote, "present an indescribable simplicity and symmetry that cannot possibly be the work of chance...
...those who were sleeping or relaxing in their cabins had no chance at all. Rigger Tony Sinnett, 34, watched in horror from a rescue craft after his escape. "It was as if the platform had been hit by an atom bomb," he said. He recalled seeing * half a dozen men on the platform's helicopter deck "who seemed to be waving. But then the deck keeled over, and the men disappeared...
...There will be no Mondale-like press conferences at the end of the driveway; no skeletons left in the closet, as with McGovern's selection of Senator Thomas Eagleton; and no leaks. Aspirants have been asked to turn over everything but dental records to a claque of half a dozen aides who pore over the documents in isolation two floors above campaign headquarters in a red brick building on the fringe of Boston's Combat Zone. They are called the Manhattan Project...