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...there are limits to the sorties a satellite can make; usually it will exhaust its rocket fuel after six or seven months. When that happens, the Soviet controllers radio commands that explode the satellite into nuclear and nonnuclear components. The nonnuclear parts are allowed to sink back into the atmosphere, where most of the metal burns up in the frictional heat of reentry. The reactor is lifted with one last spurt of rocket fuel to an altitude of 500 to 600 miles, where it can drift safely for hundreds of years...
...Blanket," had been a pre-emptive strike against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...
Inside a small farmhouse in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, eight Palestinian fighters warm themselves around an old kerosene heater. They have spent the afternoon training on a Katyusha rocket launcher that lies beneath crude camouflage in a nearby apple orchard. Most of these men are combat veterans who fled to the Bekaa Valley after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the bombing of West Beirut. Yet the war seems strangely irrelevant to their thinking. "First we will drive the enemy from Lebanon," declares a 20-year-old in a calm voice, "and then we will liberate Palestine...
Just 29 seconds later, the Huskies struck again, once more on a slapshot from the blue line. Forward Pattie Magrath took the puck from teammate Lisa Sylvia, positioned herself, and then sent a rocket flying past Taste...
After splitting wins--Corbisiero in the 1650 free and Chappell in the 200 free--the Crimson jumped in front with a strong one two finish in the 50 free by the sprint corps. Missing the leadership of junior rocket Mike Miao--University record holder in the 100 free--and facing shaved opponents in an event decided by hundredths of seconds, senior Jim Carbone and sophomore Bob Hrabchak bested Columbia's Mike McCool in 21.45 and .21.66. respectively...