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...General Dynamics Corp., determine the cause of the accident. Speculation among technicians centered on possible flaws in the TERCOM onboard computer program, which is designed to keep the missile on track with the preprogrammed terrain features below. It was the fourth such accident since mid-1979 along the ten-mile-wide test-flight path, one that happens to come within ten miles of Ronald Reagan's ranch. But the Pentagon says that the test results, on the whole, are not worrisome: of the 81 Tomahawk flights so far, 61 have gone according to plan-a respectable percentage...
Sophomore Jenny Stricker placed third in the two mile and senior Adam Dixon took fourth in the mile at the NCAA Indoor. Track Championships held Saturday...
...presidential howdy, was the day the storms turned vicious and the schedules became a muddle. One of the intended high points of the week, the horseback ride of the President and the Queen around the ranch, was scratched. Then, with the twisting, barely paved, 1½-lane, 7-mile road up to the ranch flooded out in half a dozen spots, the visit was almost canceled altogether. No, wait, it was definitely on. But British reporters could not come. "This will not do!" bellowed Paul Callan of the Daily Mirror at a White House aide. 'The British press will...
Hawke, meanwhile, followed the results from a hotel suite in Canberra, from which he could see, less than half a mile away, the white-painted Parliament House where he will now govern. Shortly after midnight, he drove to the huge National Exhibition Center to greet 1,500 cheering well-wishers. When he entered, champagne corks popped, hundreds chanted "We want Bob!" and tables and chairs were knocked over as the throng mobbed its next Prime Minister. Hawke celebrated his remarkable victory with measured and modest optimism. "This is going to be a government for all Australians," he declared. "We have...
Since joining the Harvard men's team. Saravay has lowered his time in the mile to 7.21. He has competed in the Dartmouth Relays, the Northeastern Athletic Congress at Boston University, the Metropolitan Athletic Conference and the Greater Boston Track Invitational, and he is currently gearing up for the Outdoor Track and Field Junior National Championships, to be held in July at Niagara Falls...