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...Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D-Mich.) chair of the Senate Banking Committee, and Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah), the panel's senior Republican, had been resisting amendments, arguing that the package put together privately by the committee and endorsed by a 21-0 vote last week was too delicately balanced to with-stand many changes without crumbling...
...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, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. All of them have signed the Society's "Mars Declaration," which advocates a U.S. space program that would lead to the human exploration of Mars...
...Toshiba Machine, which is 50.1% owned by the Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp., and Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk, a state-owned computer and weaponmaker in Norway. Several lawmakers even suggested that Toshiba and Kongsberg be barred from selling products in the American market. "I'm talking about retribution," said Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah...
Incumbent Republican Jake Garn, a veteran of a Space Shuttle flight, won easily over Democrat Craig Oliver...
Horne, daughter of Garn's late first wife, has been suffering progressive kidney failure as a result of diabetes. Garn, best known as the only Senator to fly in the U.S. space shuttle, decided to be the donor even though two of his sons also qualified. This way, he said, his daughter "will have two brothers in reserve as donors." The Republican Senator, who is seeking a third term this November, will return to Utah to recuperate...