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...size of the intelligence budget for 1994, $1 billion worth of spying equipment disappeared in a flash above Vandenberg Air Force Base -- the costliest space accident since the 1986 Challenger disaster. A new Titan IV rocket carrying a supersecret intelligence-satellite system inexplicably blew up two minutes after launch. Space-spying expert Jeffrey Richelson, author of America's Secret Eyes in Space, called it a "huge embarrassment for the intelligence community...
...pursue." It would forbid the military to inquire about an enlistee's sexual orientation not only upon entering the armed forces but at any time during service. The new policy would put an end to witch hunts in the service by raising the standards required to launch an investigation, ending vigilante squads and MPs with cameras waiting outside off-base bars. The policy, said an official, would allow homosexuals in the military "to quietly have a life...
Abortion foes launch a massive assault on clinics...
...Clinton and the Congress last month bears little evidence of that utopian dream. So far there is no mention of hooking up with the Russian Mir space station or of Mir 2, due in 1996. No mention of using the huge Russian Energia rocket to save billions in launch costs. If anything, the plans underscore once again the uselessness of the space station and NASA's desperation to have something, anything...
...Dust devil!" someone yells, and a stinging, 30-ft.-high spiral of sand, sagebrush, shale bits and a lizard or two snicks up the cliffside. Everyone grabs for the gliders, fluttering half assembled and helpless an hour before launch...