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Hart began the week by stepping out of character. Flying into Houston on Sunday, the candidate, usually reserved and aloof, stretched out on the ground near a runway and chewed on a blade of grass. Hours later he led his entourage to Gilley's, the watering hole made famous by the movie Urban Cowboy. There he knocked back a long-necked bottle of beer while having his boots shined, danced enthusiastically with four women and had to be dissuaded by his staff from trying a John Travolta-style ride on the mechanical bull. Apparently, Hart simply decided to give...
...told a crowd of 5,000 standing in a cold drizzle that his trip to China had been a "long journey for peace." After the two leaders met privately in an airport lounge for 20 minutes, the Pope dropped Reagan off at Air Force One and returned to a runway podium for wa brief liturgy. "He is a | charming person," the "Pontiff later told reporters, "and I am not disagreeable either." But some Vatican officials were irked that the Pope had been used as a political prop. Indeed, a camera crew from the Republican National Committee filmed the encounter...
...Since last fall almost 700 men have been working up to 14 hours a day blasting through rock at Mount Pleasant, a bleak stretch of high ground 25 miles southwest of Port Stanley, the capital. They are building a new British military base with an 8,500-ft. runway that will be able to accommodate large military aircraft...
...Falklands from Ascension Island, a British possession in the Atlantic midway between Britain and the Falklands, in 8½ hours. Now the quickest flight from Ascension is a twelve-hour trip in turboprop C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft that have to be refueled in midair. More important, the new runway will allow the rapid deployment of British troops in an emergency. Although the democratically elected government of Argentine President Raúl Alfonsin has replaced the military regime that invaded the Falklands in 1982, the British-and especially the Falklanders-remain suspicious of Argentine intentions. Says Sir Rex Hunt...
...California's Mojave Desert late last week for a perfect, centerline landing. Indeed, the touchdown was what shuttle pilots approvingly call a wow WONG (weight on wheels, weight on nose gear). As the 98-ton orbiter rolled to a stop on the seven-mile-long, hard-baked desert runway at Edwards Air Force Base, mission control radioed a heartfelt "Welcome back...