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Finishing off the Harvard victory parade was Lani Nelson, whose time of 59.18 in the 100 butterfly was good for first place...
...Education Department's buildings after McAuliffe so that "her sacrifice will live forever in the memory of this nation." New York's Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman introduced legislation to designate Jan. 28 of each year as a permanent National Teacher Recognition Day. Florida's Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson, who, like Garn, had flown on a shuttle, proposed that seven of the newly discovered moons of the planet Uranus each be named for one of Challenger's victims. Colorado Republican William Armstrong went a bit further, asking the Senate to name ten moons, adding the three Apollo astronauts who died...
...supposed to make his first flight on Discovery last April but was dropped to make way for Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah. Rescheduled to fly on Columbia last month, Jarvis was again disappointed when he was bumped in favor of Florida Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson...
...blaze of trumpets heralding the opening session of Parliament in Cape Town had barely died down when State President P.W. Botha unveiled an improbable proposal. Said he: "If I were to release Mr. Nelson Mandela on humanitarian grounds, could Captain Wynand du Toit, Andrei Sakharov and Anatoli Shcharansky not also be released on humanitarian grounds...
...last-minute addition to Botha's 27-minute speech, the proposal was dismissed by critics as a bit of charlatanry aimed at emphasizing South Africa's solidarity with the West against Soviet Communism. Declared Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: "What has Nelson's release to do with Sakharov? I can't see why they are linked. It looks like a ploy that a politician has thought up, that will sound good to ears in the West (and show) that he is concerned about prisoners of conscience --when he's got so many prisoners...