Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abandoned in a parking lot. Some are wrecks, but many others are almost new, missing only a clutch plate or a windshield. Desperately short of foreign exchange, the government of President Kaunda prefers to import new vehicles through aid programs rather than buy the spare parts necessary to repair the old ones. In Zambia and Tanzania, locomotives badly needed to haul copper and agricultural produce sit on railroad sidings because no one can fix their hydraulic-brake systems...
...Beset by regular breakdowns, it produced five tons last year. In accepting such largesse, African leaders have mortgaged themselves to outside interests. Observes a Nigerian film maker: "We build palaces but can't run them, we import cars we can't repair, we are attracted by everything that glitters. We are slaves to another culture...
...survey of the earth's surface, performed poorly. All of these will have to be reflown on future missions. There were also problems with the effort to create artificial auroras, a simulation of the northern lights. Still, at least some scientific data were salvaged by an impromptu orbital repair. Under detailed guidance from Mission Control, Parker managed to free a jammed tape recorder used to store the results of experiments. His tool: a 69? Phillips screwdriver...
RECOVERING. Ahn Ji Sook, 7, and Lee Kil Woo, 4, the South Korean children brought to the U.S. by President and Mrs. Reagan after their November Far East tour; from surgery to repair heart defects; in Roslyn, N.Y. The two were moved out of intensive care last week and should be healthy enough to return home before Christmas...
...week, it was unclear, for instance, whether local phone companies had the right to offer phone services like weather and time of day after Jan, 1. The gigantic physical task of divvying the Bell System's assets among the new parts, from whole telephone exchanges down to trucks, repair equipment, paper clips and brooms, is still going on. Though phone service has not been hampered, companies trying to do business with Bell report that they sometimes have trouble finding out who is in charge of an office or division...