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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pound booster, composed of two solid-fuel rocket motors, was believed to be in an area 18 miles northeast of the launch site, where parts of the shuttle's crew compartment, one of its two solid fuel rocket boosters and other debris have been reported...
...eerily silent orange-yellow blossom of flame suddenly appeared above them, Morse frantically searched through his lens for the speck that might be the separating shuttle, headed for an emergency landing or ditching in the ocean. "Get over to the landing site," he shouted at his assistant. But it was apparent from the cobweb-like streamers filling the sky after the explosion that there was little hope the astronauts had survived...
...intruder broke into the reactor but stole nothing. He left a note at the site saying that he broke into the building in order to demonstrate the weakness of the security system, but soon after turned himself over to the police...
Local youngsters still flocked to the site Sunday, expecting the slide to be operational. While most expressed disappointment at the melting pile of ice, four-year-old Jonathon Sears took a more philosophical approach...
...relocate the two bases causes shudders in Washington. Because no single location offers the advantages of Clark, the air base's functions would probably have to be distributed among facilities in Japan and Guam. An alternative for the naval station could be found at Palau. But no other site offers a skilled labor force that could duplicate the huge volume and the low cost of maintenance performed at Subic. The two bases are, as a report by Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies puts it, "simply irreplaceable...