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...before, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration had filed an affidavit in a U.S. district court in Miami charging that the Sandinistas had encouraged South American drug dealers to use a 6,000-ft. airstrip, a hangar and a cocaine-processing laboratory in Nicaragua to foster the shipment of drugs...
...Angeles, the announcement of the Soviet pullout from this summer's Games hit with earthquake force. Many of the 1,200 employees of the L.A.O.O.C. heard the news on car radios as they pulled into parking spaces at the headquarters building, a former Hughes helicopter plant nicknamed "the hangar." Inside, they were ordered not to discuss the situation with anyone and no outsiders were allowed in the building unless they had previous appointments. Mayor Thomas Bradley, speaking by phone from New York, where he too was attending the torch-carrying ceremony, pronounced himself "bitterly disappointed." He and other officials repeatedly...
...another effort to shore up support for the invasion, the Administration placed captured Cuban weapons on display in a hangar at Andrews Air Force Base. The most formidable were two Soviet-built BTR-60 armored personnel carriers. Twelve of them had been spirited at night into Grenada 18 months ago by the Cubans, after electric power had been cut and roadblocks installed to conceal the unloading. Also on display were twelve ZU-23 antiaircraft guns, 291 submachine guns, 6,330 rifles and 5.6 million rounds of ammunition. The Pentagon termed the arms cache sufficient to equip two Cuban battalions (about...
...forlorn return of the unchosen began last Saturday, when the first 15 bodies arrived at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware. As weeping family members stood by the coffins in a cavernous aircraft hangar, General Kelley spoke a few words of praise. Then the familiar strain of the Marine hymn filled the makeshift chapel...
NASA, meanwhile, had its own difficulties. Last week the space shuttle Columbia was still resting in its hangar at Florida's Kennedy Space Center following the postponement of its launch scheduled for Oct. 28. Officials suspected there were flaws in the thermal insulation on the nozzle of one of Columbia's two strap-on solid-propellant booster rockets. Similar coating on a rocket nozzle recovered from the previous shuttle flight in August turned out, on postflight inspection, to be just a hairline away from burning through. Some space officials said that if the rocket had fired only...