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...sudden wind shifts, Challenger's crew had an especially rocky launch right from lift-off. Just 72 seconds into the flight--a second and a half before the explosion--the orbiter yawed suddenly to the right. As the righthand rocket booster broke loose, spewing superhot gases from a faulty joint, the shuttle's engines tried to compensate for the loss of pressure, and the crew must have felt swift side-to-side lurches...
...started innocuously enough when Air Force General Frank Vargas Pazos, 51, chief of Ecuador's joint armed forces command, complained that he had not been informed of a practice alert at the Defense Ministry in Quito. The impetuous Vargas, who is nicknamed "Loco," quickly found himself in a quarrel with the Defense Minister, General Luis Piņeiros Rivera, and the army chief, General Manuel Maria Albuja. Shots were heard inside the ministry. Piņeiros promptly fired Vargas, who in turn charged Piņeiros with accepting a kickback in the purchase of a plane for the national airline. Vargas also alleged...
...came to the Hofdi guesthouse, the austere, two-story building where Reagan and Gorbachev met. When Soviet cooks inspected the plain, white bone-china tea service that was to be used to serve Gorbachev, they found it, well, not elaborate enough. The Icelanders and Soviets went on a joint mission to examine three different sets, one of which proved satisfactory to Gorbachev's minions...
...Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I went to Austin to meet with the President and Walt Rostow, special assistant to the President for national security affairs. Our purpose was to review with the President the defense budget for the fiscal year 1968, which was to be presented to the Congress in February 1967. Among the items to be considered was the recommendation of the Chiefs that the budget request include funds for production of an antiballistic-missile system. I explained to the President that the Chiefs had recommended the action, but that...
...President called on each of the five Chiefs in turn, and each one of them urged approval of the ABM program. Walt Rostow sided with the Chiefs. This was an extraordinarily difficult moment for President Johnson. I never hesitated to disagree with a unanimous recommendation of the Joint Chiefs if I felt it was the wrong decision. In this case, however, Congress had already passed a law authorizing production of the ABM system. To continue to refuse to proceed in the direction that had been supported by the Congress, and to do so in the face of a unanimous recommendation...