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Richard Feynman, a physicist on the presidential commission, said he does not believe the low temperature readings were caused by a cold hydrogen leak. In Wednesday's editions of the Washington Post, he said the readings could have been a result of breezes blowing past the cold external fuel tank onto the booster rocket...
Kissinger Associates' selected clientele of international conglomerates and financial institutions is as top secret as the papers Kissinger once dealt with, but like all such secrets the names tend to leak: Volvo, Fiat, Atlantic Richfield, Fluor Corp., H.J. Heinz Co., S.G. Warburg investment bank in Britain. Foreign governments, however, need not apply. "We are not lobbyists," Kissinger says sternly. "We do not deal with the U.S. Government on behalf of any client...
...seven crew members of the Challenger were killed when it exploded shortly after lift-off Jan. 28, and a possible leak in the right booster is considered a possible cause...
...casing, several rocket specialists say, would have sent the booster cartwheeling wildly through space. Bob Truax, a retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says. "Even if you get a small leak, that hole would get bigger in a matter of seconds, and you'd have hell in a handbasket very quickly...
...believe, however, that Brittan's resignation will end the questions about Thatcher's role in the affair. An emergency parliamentary debate is scheduled this week on the Westland controversy. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock gave the Prime Minister a taste of the attacks she can expect when he called the leak the action of a government "not just rotten to the core but rotten from the core." Thatcher is certain to respond in kind...