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...middle of the Depression and ends on the eve of World War II with a nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler burying a cardboard time capsule containing a Tom Mix decoder badge, his school report on the life of F.D.R., a harmonica and a pair of Tootsy Toy lead rocket ships, "to show I had foreseen the future...
...Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into tools. The makeshift instruments, they hoped, would catch the trigger, initiating a 45-minute sequence that would culminate in the firing of the LEASAT's propulsion rocket...
...disappeared from the city's streets, and the offices of the various Muslim militia groups were shut down. The changed situation prompted the feuding Christian militias on the other side of Beirut's "green line" to reunite their fighting forces. The Syrians had not stopped the artillery and rocket exchanges that rage sporadically across the line, but for the moment at least they had reduced the prevailing chaos on both sides of the divided city. --By William E. Smith. Reported by Dean Fischer/Cairo and Roland Flamini/Jerusalem
...other compelling evidence last week that Gorbachev is carrying out a high-level shuffle of the Soviet military. The current Warsaw Pact commander, Marshal Viktor Kulikov, 64, it was rumored, had been given a lesser post. Marshal Vladimir Tolubko, 70, who was in charge of the country's strategic rocket forces, has retired. So has Marshal Alexei Yepishev, 77, chief of the powerful main political directorate of the army and navy; his replacement is General Alexei Lizichev, 57, currently political commissar of Soviet forces in East Germany. Western diplomats believe these changes bear the marks of Gorbachev's insistence...
...nation alone can easily afford the estimated $40 billion price tag. And even that figure is conservative; it assumes the existence of the $10 billion orbiting U.S. space station, now scheduled for completion around 1992, which will be used as a platform to assemble and launch the Mars-bound rocket...