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...millions of Americans, the name McDonald's means a reliable product at a modest price. So when Quality Inns International decided to launch an economy hotel chain, the company seemed to choose just the right name: McSleep Inns. The no-frills chain, which is expected to include up to 300 inns by 1989, will offer rooms that are 30% smaller than standard hotel accommodations. It will have no meeting centers or restaurants. The cost: $20 to $29 a night. A McDonald's spokeswoman said the company has yet to decide whether to sue for trademark infringement...
Such self-assurance on the part of the Soviet space establishment will be in ample evidence this week as IKI and its charismatic director, Roald Sagdeyev, sponsor a three-day extravaganza of seminars and speeches celebrating the 30th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Called Space Future Forum, it will focus on the topic of international cooperation in space. Some 500 scientific luminaries from around the world plan to attend...
...Soviets' launch capability took a quantum leap earlier this year when they successfully fired off Energia, a booster as powerful as the mighty Saturn 5, which the U.S. developed for the Apollo program and then scrapped in favor of the shuttle. With Energia, the Soviets can loft 100-ton payloads, vs. a maximum for the U.S. shuttle of 30 tons. That is enough to carry their shuttle, which is under development, or to orbit parts for a space station far larger than Mir, which could be a platform for a manned mission to Mars. Says Dale Myers, deputy administrator...
...Cosmos military satellites drift over the U.S., photographing missile silos and naval deployments. Other Soviet spacecraft lurk with sensitive electronic ears that can pick up telephone conversations in Washington, while Meteor weather satellites monitor conditions over key U.S. targets. Soviet infrared satellites watch for the telltale heat signaling a launch of U.S. ICBMs. At the military launch site in Plesetsk, 500 miles northeast of Moscow, crews stand ready to launch additional intelligence satellites at a moment's notice...
...Honasan's publicity blitz, General Fidel Ramos, the armed forces Chief of Staff, began one of his own. Ramos charged that the colonel, despite his fierce anti-Communist stance, had actually shirked duty in N.P.A.-infested combat zones. He said Honasan did not have enough supplies and manpower to launch another serious attack. But even Ramos was forced to admit that Honasan's popular appeal "is a long-range time bomb planted in the heart of the military...