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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a colorful exclamation (see box), Pilot 805 emphasizes that he is the one prepared to attack the target. His effusiveness could also simply reflect his natural excitement or fear at the sight of the indicator light, signaling him to fire...
Contrary to the expectations of many, the untested army, which had remained argely out of sight since the outbreak of the 1975-76 civil war, successfully reasserted the government's authority. But it was not clear how long the calm would last. At week's end, the Lebanese Cabinet ordered an investigation of reports that as many as 40 Christian civilians were massacred by Druze militiamen last Thursday in the mountain village of Bmariam...
...Challenger's main engines and twin solid-fuel rocket boosters, which burn at 6000° F, that observers gathered at Kennedy Space Center for the eighth flight of NASA's Space Transportation System (STS-8) could read newspapers outdoors at 2:32 a.m. Awed by the sight of the flames against the night sky, Flight Commander Richard Truly, a veteran of the shuttle's second flight, asked ground controllers to record his impressions moments after liftoff. Said he: "The light from the solid rocket motors was about 500 times more than I remember...
...leave the country. Reason: a pending court case in which the Greek government claims that Christina owes $33 million worth of inheritance taxes on her father's property. That was when Christina began throwing her weight around. She furiously paced the runway, screaming at everyone in sight and demanding to speak with her lawyer and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. After three hours, permission for her departure came through from an unknown-but obviously influential-source. The incident left red faces in its wake. Said Elefterios Kaloyannis, an M.P. for the conservative New Democracy Party: "We have ridiculed ourselves abroad...
...embattled country. As a result, the Israelis were busy last week making final preparations to move their front line in western Lebanon to a more secure location 17 miles south of Beirut. In the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, meanwhile, Syrians and Israelis remain poised within sight of each other across a tense, mile-wide line. Assad's influence has also reached right into the inner circles of U.S. diplomacy. Partly because Assad refused to see him again, Washington replaced U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib with Robert McFarlane. After his first meeting with the Syrian President three weeks...