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...Soviets, the Canadian rescue erases some of the ill will generated in 1978 when a falling Soviet satellite scattered radioactive materials over a wide area of the Northwest Territories. It also gives Moscow another space first on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, on Oct. 4, 1957. Above all, it proves that a satellite several hundred miles above the earth can pick up a signal as weak as that of the single-engine plane. Said one of the rescued men, George Heemskeerk of Brampton, Ont.: "We should...
...various organizations and ran a charter boat service to the South Pacific (several team members, including Burton, also got married), Transglobe proceeded by ship toward its next destination, the North Pole. Fiennes and Burton navigated the Yukon River by motorized rubber raft, sailed 3,000 miles along the Northwest Passage in the whaler and camped for the four-month Arctic night at Ellesmere Island. They reached the North Pole by snowmobile just before midnight last April 10 and celebrated with well-chilled champagne and a chocolate Easter...
Just before noon one day last week, a man wearing a straw hat strolled through the back door of Bob Moore's Welding & Machine Service, Inc., a two-story shop in northwest Miami, opened fire with a shotgun, and killed eight workers and wounded three others. Then he calmly walked out the back door and, slinging his gun over his shoulder, climbed onto his bicycle and pedaled away. He did not get far. Investigators later found the gunman sprawled dead a few blocks away, his straw hat at his feet and his bike leaning haphazardly against a utility pole...
...Urumieh, located in northwest Iran, all one sees are soldiers, Islamic Guards, veiled women and sallow-faced, apprehensive men and children. The city, once among the cleanest and most picturesque in Iran, is now an eyesore: a panorama of uncollected garbage, decaying public works, empty shops and people in tattered clothes...
...something for everyone. Care for a piece of out-of-the-way America? An abandoned Air Force radar installation station on an acre at Cottonwood, Idaho, could be just the ticket. Prefer something in the East? The 105 acres adjacent to the Saint Albans Air Force Station in northwest Vermont might be worth a look. Feeling urban? The Frankford Arsenal, an 87.7-acre complex of 167 buildings, sheds and loading docks in Philadelphia, has all kinds of possibilities. The sale will offer property in every state but Alaska. Real estate dealers with a bankroll and real estate dreamers without...