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...with all that wild energy around it." Says a National Transportation Safety Board investigator: "The crew compartment was pressurized and sealed tight and welded into a kind of cocoon or bubble that may have suffered relatively little damage, briefly riding the top of that fire ball." Nonetheless, a pathology expert sent to examine the astronauts' remains at Cape Canaveral said, "it is likely that the crew was knocked unconscious immediately and felt nothing during the [three-to-four-minute] fall to the ocean. I want to guess that they were unconscious all the way down, if any of them really...
...flights last week, the carrier's losses rose higher and higher. TWA had a $123 million deficit in the final quarter of 1985 and is expected to drop almost $200 million more in the first three months of this year. Concludes Robert Joedicke, an airline industry expert for the Shearson/Lehman Bros. investment firm: "Icahn has bitten off more than he can chew." The chairman, though, is maintaining a brave front. Says he: "I was looking for a challenge...
...University, the independent-minded legislator from Rochester first won his seat in the House of Representatives in 1964 and speedily garnered bipartisan respect for his intelligence, diligence and integrity. As a member of, and eventually the ranking Republican on, the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Conable was an expert on U.S. tax policy and a vocal proponent of free international trade. In 1980 he served as finance chairman of George Bush's bid for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. After his 1985 retirement from Congress, Conable spurned a lucrative lobbying career in Washington--"I don't want to be owned...
...instead, have compelled moderate Arab governments to rally behind Gaddafi. Mitterrand and Chirac complained to U.S. Envoy Vernon Walters that a limited bombing raid could stir up a new wave of Islamic extremism. "With a victory like that, who needs a defeat?" said Dominique Moïsi, a French strategic expert...
Bruce Hoffman, a Rand Corp. analyst, warns against dismissing such adherents as "kooks or country bumpkins. These people are very adept at using weapons and explosives." The movement would be more dangerous, he says, if an effective leader were to arise. J. Gordon Melton, of Santa Barbara, Calif., an expert on marginal U.S. religions, agrees. "It's not a huge movement, and it's a fairly disorganized movement," he says. "But it doesn't take that many people with guns to do the damage." --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Barbara Dolan/Chicago and Mary Wormley/Los Angeles