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Indeed, Discovery was turned 180 degrees in the wrong direction, with the mirror facing the darkness of space instead of the laser beam coming from earth. "We slipped up," said Flight Director Milton Heflin. Human error had ruined the first space shuttle experiment in President Reagan's $26 billion Star Wars research program last week. Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, it turned out, had given the astronauts the wrong numbers to feed into Discovery's computerized guidance system. Rather than pointing down at a 9,994-ft. mountain, the shuttle turned upward, searching for a nonexistent...
...nine-judge panels drawn from a pool of 26 appeals court judges. It would expire after five years, though if the review court proved a success, Congress could make it permanent. Moreover, before he spoke, Burger had done some lobbying of his own. He consulted with Democratic Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, a former chief justice of his state's supreme court; two weeks ago Heflin reintroduced legislation that would authorize the kind of court that Burger wants and that would also create a commission to look into problems facing the nation's courts. Despite last week...
Many of the ornaments came in the form of amendments to the continuing-spending resolution and gas-tax bill. Senator Howell Heflin, an Alabama Democrat, tucked in a $1 million appropriation for channel-widening at the Franklin Ferry Bridge in his home state. John Melcher, Democratic Senator from Montana, hooked a $243,000 fish hatchery for his, and Louisiana Senator Russell Long pushed through a $5 million cloverleaf project outside Baton Rouge Even Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat, famed for his "Golden Fleece" awards for Government waste, rammed through a $1.5 million poverty-studies program at the University...
...weight classes in an attempt to secure two wins. The strategy backfired as McNerney, wrestling up one weight class from his accustomed 142 Ib, division, scored a superior decision in the 150 Ib, class, but Fritz Campbell lost the most frustrating bout of the match to Cornell's Phil Heflin...
Another opponent of the sale who held firm despite White House pressure was Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin. He said that he found the White House lobbying gentle by comparison with that of interested corporations. A delegation of 26 businessmen with contracts in Saudi Arabia flew up from Alabama to tell him that a whole lot of jobs, including maybe his own, might depend on how he voted. Democrat David Pry or of Arkansas got a pro-AWACS call from Mobil Oil President William Tavoulareas. Seattle-based Boeing, which builds the AWACS, put pressure on Washington's Gorton. A week...