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...that caused the speed brakes in the shuttle's rudder to retreat automatically. Finally, only 143 ft. off the ground, Lousma took over the stick. Columbia came in so "high and hot"-pilot's lingo for fast and steep-that Fullerton released the main landing gears a scant seven seconds before touchdown. (Had they jammed, he could have freed them in an instant by firing an explosive charge...
...amidst all the debate about guns and bombs, there is one aspect of our military involvement in Asia that has received scant attention, despite its pressing moral and humanitarian nature. This is the plight of the so-called "Amerasians," the offspring of American soldiers and Asian women, an estimated 80,000 of Laos and Vietnam...
Forsberg's freeze proposal was first published in April 1980, in a booklet titled Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race, but it attracted scant attention. Only after November 1980, when voters in three state senate districts in Massachusetts approved a freeze resolution by 59% to 41%, did the proposal begin to draw wide support. "What that told us," says Randy Kehler, a former schoolteacher and antiwar activist, "was that Ronald Reagan's election was not necessarily synonymous with support of the nuclear-arms race." At last count, freeze resolutions had been passed in 257 town meetings in New England...
Columnist Joseph Kraft saw the Administration ending its first year "floundering in triumph. The reason is that the goals attained by the President were heavily ideological. Since the Reagan ideology bears scant relation to the real world, his successes make only slight progress on the true problems." In foreign affairs, the globetrotting Kraft finds Washington "lagging behind events . . . Ronald Reagan came to the presidency with only a smattering of general, often incompatible, ideas about foreign policy." The Administration is now subjected to "unkind cuts from friends all over the world"-from West Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia and China. "First Washington...
Asked how they felt about Reagan's keeping his campaign promises, 67% say he is making a good start on keeping our defenses strong, and 58% on working effectively with Congress. But only 27% believe he has been effective in reducing the unfairness in American life, and a scant 13% say he has made a good start in cutting youth unemployment. Indeed, 60% agree with the proposition that Reagan "represents the interests of business rather than the average American" (35% disagree). Opinion is closely divided on whether Reagan sets too extravagant a style in the White House: 45% agree...