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...long voyage toward Jupiter, the spacecraft is scheduled to pass within 620 miles of the asteroids Gaspra and Ida, the first such close encounter in the annals of interplanetary travel. Then, five months before reaching Jupiter near the end of 1995, Galileo is to release a 730-lb. probe that will become the first man-made object to penetrate the gaseous atmosphere of the planet. Its instruments are expected to transmit data on the Jovian atmosphere for about 75 minutes before being silenced by the planet's intense atmospheric pressure. Galileo is next scheduled to settle into a two-year...
Demonstrators will march along the mall and pause in front of the Lincoln Memorial to hear several Soviet and American activists speak. including popular refusniks Ida Nudel. Natan Sharansky and Vladimir Slepak. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Weisel and Vice President George Bush will also appear...
...described a taxi driver who recognized him but mistakenly assumed that his wife was Ida Nudel, another dissident. Sharansky understood that the driver was a supporter of human rights in the Soviet Union, but that he was only familiar with the two most well-known names...
...From all the Soviet Jews, he know two names," he said. "Very natural. If there is Sharansky, there is Nudel. If he hears that Ida Nudel is in Israel, I'm sure that he will have the impression that the struggle for Soviet Jews...is coming to a happy...
...growing number of other refuseniks. Moscow has allowed 5,423 Soviet Jews to emigrate so far this year, nearly six times the 914 who were permitted to leave in 1986 (but still a far cry from the 51,300 let out in 1979). Among the departees are Ida Nudel, Slepak's counterpart as "mother of the refuseniks," and several other prominent Jewish emigration activists. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has told U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz that at least 12,000 Soviet Jews will be given exit visas...