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...launch at least for a day while ground controllers probed the Westar accident. If Indonesia requested a deferral until a later mission, the shuttle would have to bring the satellite back to earth. The added weight would speed the shuttle's descent on landing, possibly forcing NASA to scrub a Florida touchdown...
Before Alex can be properly cremated, he rises miraculously from the dead and dons a surgical scrub suit from the Nice morgue. He retrieves his clothes, passport and traveler's checks from his hotel room, and takes off for California, with the baffled Marie in pursuit. She locates her still groggy spouse in a Carmel motel. He is taking his pulse in wonderment; his heart, he notes, has a tendency to stop. Indeed, he drops dead from time to time, then comes to life. Marie now vows to do the mysterious thing she failed to do before. That...
...stretch from the Pacific inland past Chula Vista, Calif., where the Border Patrol picked up 49,511 interlopers in April, up 46% over the same period last year. When the pilot turned on the chopper's spot lights, hundreds of Mexicans could be seen striding across the desolate, scrub-covered fields deeper into the U.S. But it was not until three weeks ago, when a man came to wash his office windows, that Gustafson appreciated the full extent of the problem. "He asked me in Spanish if he could come in," Gustafson recalls. "It was apparent the guy didn...
...streets, men in tattered clothing water shrubs, scrub public monuments, whitewash scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered...
...taxpayer. In fiscal 1984, the estimated cost of operating all satellites will be about $200 million. At present, the White House cannot estimate how much the Government would save by buying satellite data. To look into such questions, Congress plans to launch hearings, an action that could scrub the Administration's plan before it lifts...