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...slow. Iraqi tanks on the open salt flats were hampered by the marshy, rain-soaked terrain. Pilots, seeking to avoid loss of aircraft, flew too high for effective bombing. Only with the aid of intense cover fire from helicopter gunships and rocket launchers, whose missiles threw up sheets of flame in the Iranian lines, did the Iraqis advance at all. Confronted by this "moving wall of fire," as one eyewitness described it, the 50,000-man invasion force took huge casualties but did not flee...
...clearly failed. Less than half a second after booster ignition, just as the shuttle began to lift, first a white and then a black puff of smoke gushed from a joint between two of the 149-ft. rocket's four segments. At 59.8 seconds, high in the sky, flame burst through the booster's steel casing, apparently at the same aft joint. In another 13 seconds, the external tank that fueled the orbiter's three main engines exploded in a catastrophic, fatal fireball...
...premiered, the closest thing to a horror show these days is a concert by the shockrock group Twisted Sister. In addition to the high-kicking Rockettes (who still show up from time to time), audiences are now treated to sights such as 12-ft. dancing mummies and walls of flame...
...officially as head of an experimental music laboratory at the Pompidou Center in Paris known acronymically as IRCAM. He has kept a low profile since, shunning most conducting invitations in order to compose in his electronic studio. Has the former enfant terrible, now 60, mellowed? Or does his modernist flame burn as brightly as ever...
...week's most tantalizing story, in Aviation Week, reported that the jet of flame from the side of Challenger's right booster had either melted or wrenched loose the struts that held the booster to the lower end of the external tank. The booster then pivoted on its still intact upper-attachment fitting and crashed its nose into the tank wall. The escaping liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen ignited, causing the fatal explosion. At week's end NASA had not commented on the report...