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...course being set by the interim government, which is dominated by longtime Duvalier loyalists. Lieut. General Henry Namphy, the presiding member of the National Council of Government, moved swiftly to defuse the tide of criticism. He summarily abolished the National Assembly, a body that had served largely to rubber-stamp Duvalier policies. Namphy also disbanded the uniformed branch of the despised Duvalier secret police corps, the Tonton Macoutes...
...booster was connected to the external liquid-fuel tank. This ring, in turn, was just above one of the three special joints coupling the rocket's stacked solid-fuel segments. Externally, 177 high-strength steel pins held these joints together. Internally the joints were sealed with two large rubber O rings...
...Buffeted by overnight winds of up to 35 m.p.h., the shuttle had gone through what meteorologists call a "cold soak," conditions more severe than those at any of the previous 24 shuttle launches. NASA manuals say that the solid fuel in a booster should be ignited only when the rubber-like mixture is between 40 degrees and 90 degrees . Morton Thiokol, the rocket manufacturer, also specifies that the fuel's temperature should never be allowed to fall below freezing. The insulated boosters contain no internal heat sensors, but NASA technicians calculated the mean temperature to be 55 degrees...
Johnston's "Stretch-A-Buck" campaign, which she illustrates with rubber dollar bills, stresses social services, the nuclear freeze, and deficit reduction through defense budget cuts...
Having cleared several administrative hurdles, the move to change names awaits only the rubber stamp approval of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at its February 13 meeting...