Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA tried again two days later. This time, with the shuttle pointed in the right direction, the laser beam flashed off the mirror for more than 2 1/2 min., creating a spectacular light show for Discovery's crew as they broadcast the booming strains of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture...
...they struck at nine homes and an office, ripping through doors and windows with automatic-rifle fire and hand grenades. Their targets: members of the African National Congress, the main guerrilla organization opposed to South Africa's policy of apartheid. According to the South Africans, the 35- min. attack left 13 ANC guerrillas dead. At least two other people also died, according to authorities in Botswana, including a six-year-old girl and a Dutch social worker...
...toughness and a certain level of sophistication are intended to be the hallmarks of the Gorbachev era, there was an extraordinary reminder in Soviet cinemas last week of the man who inspired those qualities: Andropov. In a respectful 75-min. film, Andropov's wife Tatyana (not even seen in public until Andropov's funeral) reads love poems written by her husband; his son Igor praises his father's judgment and understanding of human nature. Andropov's 15 years as head of the KGB are given scant attention. If there was a deeper message in the week's events...
Around daybreak Monday, Police Commissioner Sambor deployed 150 men, including sharpshooters, bomb specialists and SWAT teams. At 5:35 a.m., Sambor roared through a bullhorn that he held arrest warrants for occupants of the house: they were given 15 min. to come out. When the deadline passed with no response but scornful taunts, police lobbed tear-gas canisters at the building and the fire department battered the roof of the house with two water cannons. A burst of gunfire came from the house, touching off a return fusillade of thousands of rounds from police lasting 90 min...
More than anything else, the late Howard Hughes loved airplanes. In 1932 he founded Hughes Aircraft, which manufactured the Winged Bullet that Hughes piloted to a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 7 hr. 28 min. at an average speed of 327 m.p.h. The company also built the famed "Spruce Goose," the eight-engine plywood plane that flew just once, with Hughes at the controls. Now a major defense contractor based in El Segundo, Calif., Hughes Aircraft is an important producer of satellites and missiles. It has high-security factories, where some of America's brightest engineers work on advanced military...