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People's first week of flights to Atlanta was nearly sold out. The passengers did not seem to mind the airline's standard no-frills policy, which requires them to pay up to $2 for in-flight snacks and $3 for each item of luggage over the two-piece limit...
...Superior in the submersible Johnson-Sea-Link II. Their voyage was the first leg of a four-week, $550,000 expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that will continue until Aug. 20. Until now researchers have seldom viewed Superior at depths below 200 ft., generally the limit to which scuba divers descend. But using the Sea-Link, they have been able to plunge right to the bottom. The deepest point...
...strike deadline loomed. The players and owners remained far apart on two major issues. Under the old contract a player could take a salary dispute to arbitration after he had played in the majors for two years. The owners wanted to raise the eligibility requirement to three years and limit any salary increase to 100%. The players refused to budge from the status quo. The other sticking point came over pensions. Traditionally the owners have given one-third of national television and radio revenue to the players' pension fund. With a new TV contract worth $1.1 billion over six years...
...Ethiopia, Angola and Cambodia. In all five nations, the President told the U.N., governments propped up by the Soviets or their allies are "at war with their own people." Reagan proposed a "regional peace process" focusing on negotiations to remove Soviet and Soviet-allied troops and military advisers and limit arms...
...short, the round little guy with the slightly comical face you have seen in such movies as Manhattan and Lovesick, and he almost apologizes for having written Off-Broadway's newest hit, Aunt Dan & Lemon. "At the risk of sounding self-pitying, the project taxed my resources to the limit and sometimes beyond," he says. "It took more brains than I had, and to figure out how to write it, I had to borrow some of next year's brains and the next year's brains as well...