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True enough. But death had come at last to convicted I.R.A. Terrorist and Hunger Striker Robert (Bobby) Gerard Sands, 27, by virtue of his own will. His earthly remains were little more than a husk after a 66-day fast in the H-block section of Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. He was the first I.R.A. member to starve himself to death since 1976, the 13th Irish Nationalist to do so in this century. Sands had failed in his mam aim: to force the British government to grant special political status to himself and 700 other I.R.A. members imprisoned...
Finally, the Central Committee also endorsed a minor shake-up in the ruling Politburo. Out went the ineffectual former Premier, Jozef Pinkowski. In came two workers, Gerard Gabrys, a miner, and Zygmunt Wronski, a molder at the Ursus tractor factory. Their inclusion in the party's supreme body, said Kania, was "the first step toward extending the representation of workers from the provinces into the Politburo...
...first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, Lindbergh's lone-eagle crossing of the Atlantic, even the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, which would turn a land of remote frontiers into a nation. Princeton's prophet of space colonization, Physicist Gerard O'Neill, saw the flight as a first step toward establishing mining facilities on the moon. Still others spoke of the shuttle's potential role in scientific research, in space manufacturing, in the eventual tapping of solar energy in orbit, in controlling the new "high ground" of space against...
...future, such a spacecraft may carry work crews into orbit, where they will be left behind inside comfortable modules that could serve as building blocks for permanent space stations. As more components are shuttled up, these centers might begin to produce space goods, perhaps even utilize raw materials, as Gerard O'Neill suggests, from the moon or from asteroids. There would be no shortage of power for such enterprises; energy would come from...
...wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) has fixed up a secret apartment for him beneath the theater's stage. Steiner listens to rehearsals and directs a new production by giving his notes to his wife during her nightly visits. By day, she tries to cope with her bumptious leading man (Gerard Depardieu), who is involved in the Resistance, and the affection that grows between them almost unconsciously. The chief menace is a smart, epicene drama critic and Nazi collaborator who senses the supposedly exiled Steiner may be near at hand...