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...east, had plunged into a slope of 5,400-ft.-high Mount Osutaka, a pine-covered granite peak. Weighing more than 350 tons, the plane buried much of its fuselage in a steeply angled ridge at an altitude of 4,700 ft. Flames spurted into the sky as the impact ignited fuel tanks; even the metal scraps burned fiercely as the 747 sliced through the trees...
...part of the history of JA8119 (the plane's serial number) particularly attracted the probers' attention. On June 2, 1978, the aircraft approached a landing at Osaka with its nose too high. The tail and the rear part of the fuselage slammed into the tarmac at 320 m.p.h.; the impact ripped aluminum skin panels from the belly of the plane. JA8119 was grounded for a month while Boeing engineers supervised repairs that included replacement of the lower part of the rear fuselage...
...Star Wars lobbying group High Frontier, peppered the Washington airwaves as the President was preparing to leave for the Geneva summit. The "building blocks" commercial, hastily put together for the Committee for a Strong Peaceful America by Democratic Media Merlin Robert Squier, was created to deflect the impact of the first ad. These two commercials are merely the first and most publicized round in the great Star Wars Public Relations War, a duel of imagery that is bound to escalate even faster than the arms race...
...illustrate the plan's impact, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand did a study for TIME based on computer models of how some typical taxpayers would fare. A family of four in Moline, III., with a total income of $25,000 would pay $1,778 in federal taxes under the current law and $1,693 under the Ways and Means proposal. A young, single executive in New York City earning $25,000 would go from a current tax of $3,527 to $3,553. A childless couple in Los Angeles with a combined salary of $82,000 and rental income...
Despite the discrepancy in statistics, teen pregnancy, as black leaders are quick to point out, should not be seen as a specifically black problem. Rather, says Jacob, it is a poverty-related problem. "It has a greater impact on the black community because it is a poor community." Indeed, poor whites as well as blacks tend to have high rates of teenage pregnancy. In the largely white community of North Adams, Mass., an old mill town where unemployment has been high, teen pregnancy is reaching epidemic levels. One out of five births at North Adams Regional Hospital...