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Accusing NASA of negligence, the suit charges that its officials "knew or should have known that the segments of the right-hand solid rocket booster would not properly seal and that a catastrophic accident would likely occur." It also claims that in the seconds before flames from the leaking booster blew up the shuttle's main tank, Challenger Pilot Smith "knew of his impending death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nasa's Woes Get Worse | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...cracking down on Western nations all around the world to make sure that they live according the the standards we in America,--alright maybe not me--take for granted. Why, didn't he tell South Africa that they better shape up if they wanted to keep the West's seal of approval? You still belong, he assured them, but time was running out on that there apartheid. There was that speech Tuesday. "If yas still want to be part of this here West, you'd better end all that killing. It just ain't right and there's no room...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: The Big Western Lie | 7/25/1986 | See Source »

Hussein's crackdown caught Palestinian leaders unawares. Without warning, squads of the blue-uniformed Central Security Force spread through Amman shutting down Fatah offices, including the house in the Al Nuzha district that the Tunis-based Arafat used during visits. Jordanian agents seized Fatah documents and applied a seal of red wax to office doors. Arafat's top aide, Khalil Wazir, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad, was told to leave the country within 48 hours when he arrived at his office in the Jebel Amman district. Before embarking on a 450-mile auto journey across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Death Before Daybreak | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

There will, of course, be all those delicious small perks that go with power: fresh flowers, current color photographs on the walls, embossed memo pads, napkins, playing cards, cigarette packages and matches with the presidential seal and inscriptions like "Aboard Air Force One." The new plane will be hardened against electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear explosion. When it lands at a distant airport, it can become a complete communications hub for the presidential party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Loftiest Chariot | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...Benadryl (both made by Warner-Lambert). Nearly all over-the-counter drugs are two-piece capsules, although the single- piece model, used for some vitamins, is perhaps safer. If anyone were to try ; to pierce a single-piece shell, it would probably leak and be very difficult to seal again. In tampering with two-piece capsules, a criminal might be able to separate the two parts, contaminate the medication and later put the pieces back together. So far, though, single-piece capsules can hold only liquid drugs. Reason: the medication cannot pass through the special machinery used to make single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Capsule Controversy | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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