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...from their mother ship, they drifted gently to earth under their large parachutes and stayed afloat for later recovery. As the shuttle cruised 184 miles above the earth, President Reagan sent up his greetings. Commented Columbia's commander, Vance Brand, 51, a veteran of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz linkup: "It's a beautiful world that we're over." Replied Reagan: "We're trying to figure out how to keep the world as beautiful as it is you looking at it from up there...
...Soviet satellite named, in Moscow's prosaic nomenclature, Cosmos 1,383. Launched last June, it was the first spacecraft in the Soviet COSPAS (an acronym for cooperation in space) series. Under discussion since 1975, when Soviet-American cooperation in space was at its apogee with the Apollo-Soyuz linkup, the SARSAT idea is virtually the last of the joint programs that have survived the current chill between Washington and Moscow. One reason: it requires no transfers of hardware or technology. The only tools the satellites have in common is their electronic "language": they must all be tuned...
...gunboats opened fire on the oceanside neighborhood of Rouche and the Carlton Hotel area after a ground penetration of about 2.5 miles into west Beirut that the Tel Aviv command said was aimed at preventing a dangerous new linkup between the leftists and some 2000 PLO guerillas reported still in the city...
...basic fact: the conflict is primarily over Lebanon's sovereignty. It is not a "civil war" between Lebanese Christians and Muslims. The P.L.O. has usurped power in order to have a base for attacking Israel. The Syrians have set up their defenses in our country to prevent a linkup between the Lebanese Christians. The Syrians act as if it were a crime for our people to try to remove the Syrian-Palestinian wedge separating the country...
...mission not only eclipsed the Soviets' earlier endurance mark of 175 days in orbit but was 101 days longer than the stay by U.S. astronauts aboard the Skylab space station in 1974. Says retired U.S. Air Force Lieut. General Thomas Stafford, a former astronaut who commanded the orbital linkup with the Soviets in 1975, the last manned American mission: "The Soviets are challenging the U.S. in space, and they are achievers...