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There ought to be plenty of fireworks this Fourth of July. But the best pyrotechnics show is likely to take place 268 million miles away, when a probe fired from the Deep Impact spacecraft is scheduled to collide with Comet Tempel 1, a nine-mile-long rock roaring through space at 66,880 m.p.h. The planned cosmic crack-up will gouge out a football-field-size crater and may be visible from the U.S. Pacific Coast and points west. It may also reveal a lot about the chemistry of comets, fossils of the early solar system...
...film provide dramatic visual evidence of a possibility hinted at earlier: the crew cabin of the space shuttle Challenger, and perhaps some of the seven crew members, survived the fireball loosed by the Jan. 28 shuttle explosion, and then dropped to the ocean in a nine-mile fall lasting three to four minutes. The photos, which NASA released last week under pressure from a presidential investigation commission, were taken by a high-speed telephoto tracking camera two miles from the launching pad. They show what appears to be an intact crew cabin sailing out and away from the blast, raising...
...civil war has uprooted as many as 2 million people from their villages and forced them into a nomadic existence. About 100,000 of these refugees, many of them orphaned children, live in more than 100 resettlement camps, most of them strung out along Mozambique's 1,500-mile coastline. "At the worst time, a year ago, we were getting 50 to 75 people a day," says Alberto Cavele, director of the resettlement camp at Cambine, near the coastal city of Inhambane. "Some people have walked here from 250 miles away. And some died...
...last week, fighting in the 6½-year-old revolt of Afghan rebels against Soviet invasion forces reached its fiercest level. In an all-out drive to cut the guerrillas' main supply line from Pakistan, Soviet troops overran a key stronghold in Jawar in eastern Afghanistan. The mile-long underground complex was a major training and storage site for the anti-Communist mujahedin forces. Meanwhile, waves of war-planes blasted insurgent positions along the Afghan-Pakistani border as some 10,000 Soviet and Afghan troops advanced on the ground. "This is the worst fighting we've ever seen," said a guerrilla...
...From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the wedding day, all air traffic within a two-mile radius of the Kennedys' seaside compound in nearby Hyannis Port was prohibited from cruising below 2,000 ft. A security force of Barnstable County police officers paid by the Shrivers had been patrolling the area for several days...