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JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to ride out the crisis sparked by Mossad's botched assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan. Hamas itself is buoyant. The real loser from the incident appears to be Yasser Arafat. As the hapless Mossad hit men returned home Monday, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin...
Just getting to the Red Planet was a signal accomplishment for Surveyor. Launching a spacecraft from Earth to Mars, says NASA, is like firing a baseball from California to New York and hitting a particular window in the Empire State Building. Having managed this navigational tour de force, Surveyor then...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The budget negotiations were half over before they began, says TIME correspondent Jef McAllister, who notes that President Clinton was able to maneuver key Republicans into feeling vulnerable. "They felt a lot of pressure to compromise, both from the President and from the country as a whole," he...
The plan was to have Armey, DeLay, Boehner and Paxon present Gingrich with a fait accompli: step aside or be voted out by parliamentary maneuver. What happened next is murky. By some accounts, when DeLay reported back to his fellow leaders later that Thursday night, he brought news that the...
Happily, this was a problem NASA had foreseen. In J.P.L.'s so-called sandbox, a roomful of Mars-like rock and soil with a mock-up lander and rover, the engineers had rehearsed a fairly straightforward maneuver that called for Pathfinder to raise one petal, tilting the entire craft 45...