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...rhapsodic mood in the mission-control room at J.P.L. was in sharp contrast to the tense atmosphere earlier that morning when the Viking 1 lander responded to a command by separating from the orbiter and beginning its 3-hr. 17-min. descent to the surface. Penetrating the Martian atmosphere, it shed its clamshell-like protective covering, deployed a 53-ft.-diameter parachute to slow its descent, and shortly before touchdown fired its retrorockets to brake its fall further. Engineers at J.P.L. watched nervously as the signals on their consoles marked the completion of each stage of the landing procedure. Because...
...American mercenaries gathered after a nine-day hiatus in the proceedings, during which the five-member revolutionary tribunal had deliberated their fate. Optimism ran reasonably high among Angolan, British and American defense lawyers, even though Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro had demanded death for all. In his marathon summation (3 hr. 20 min.), Monteiro had blasted the U.S. and British governments more than the mercenaries. He branded the U.S. as "the home of the CIA and the mother of mercenaries" and Henry Kissinger as "the traveling salesman of the international crime syndicate...
Bird of Prey. The Concorde's arrival was amicable. Traveling light, with just 76 of its 100 passenger seats filled, the British Airways Concorde covered the distance from London to Washington in 3 hr. 52 min. and-after missing a light plane by a scant 400 ft.-slipped into Dulles at noon on Monday. Minutes after the British plane touched down, its drooping nose giving it the look of a giant bird of prey, the Air France Concorde, with 80 passengers aboard, touched down just as smoothly...
With 610 delegates in hand (needed to nominate: 1,505), Carter has decided to spend fewer 16-hr, days on the campaign trail and more time trying to unite the party behind him-a goal that eluded George McGovern in 1972 and Hubert Humphrey in 1968. With some success, he solicited support at the meeting of black Democratic leaders in Charlotte, N.C. (see following story), then spent several days at home in Plains, Ga., phoning scores of Democratic union leaders, members of Congress, Governors, mayors, state and local party chiefs. Among those he wooed were Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss, former...
...shapes the overall program. Parent participation in ghetto schools has traditionally been a problem across the country and remains one in California, but the problem has been partially solved by using E.C.E. money to hire mothers as teaching aides. They earn $2,320 a school year for a 3-hr. day. For more help in the classroom, older children from nearby high schools have been recruited...