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...Shelton has not shied away from tactics that implicitly criticize Pentagon routine. While many Chairmen have been tankers, pilots and ship drivers--and were eager to embrace whatever new weapon came along--Shelton, as commander of the famed 82nd Airborne in 1993, raised eyebrows by scrapping the division's fleet of high-powered AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships in favor of more reliable but modest OH-58 Kiowas. Shelton's career went into high gear in Haiti in 1994, when he cut short the U.S. invasion, turned back the bombers and transformed himself from warrior to a diplomat, ousting Raoul...
More, indeed. Though Pathfinder and Surveyor will be claiming the attention of Mars scientists for the immediate future, there's a small fleet of similar ships poised to fly. Every 26 months the orbital minuet that Earth and Mars dance around the sun brings them close enough to make interplanetary travel practical. NASA plans to take advantage of those exploratory windows, sending at least three other lander-orbiter pairs to the Red Planet in 1998, 2001 and 2003. In 2005 the agency hopes to exceed even these ambitious plans, launching the first-ever round-trip Mars ship, one capable...
...that tidy conveyor has been idle since January in favor of a more invasive coal-delivery system: a fleet of bottom-dumping trucks making more than 200 trips a day, at 80,000 lbs. per trip, to the Mount Storm plant from the nonunion Mettiki mine, 17 miles away and across the state line in Maryland. Some of the old miners claim that the switch is an old-fashioned union-busting effort, but it's both more and less than that...
DIED. DON HUTSON, 84, fleet-footed Green Bay Packers receiver; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The "Alabama Antelope" held the record for career touchdown receptions (99) for four decades...
...even more anxious to replace their older planes with newer models. Days after Newsday said that a draft report by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the 26-year-old plane essentially came apart in midair, Continental Airlines finalized a $3.5 billion order with Boeing to upgrade its fleet. "That 747 had logged 110,000 flying hours," Lee Kreindler, who represents some of the families in civil suits against Boeing, told TIME Online. "It was designed for 60,000 hours. A new airplane wouldn't have been torn apart (by a falling beam)." According to the draft report, that...