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...Diana fever should be kept in moderation and not allowed to become too excessive," cautioned the Tokyo Mainichi Simbun editorial. But the message of restraint was lost on even the writer's own newspaper, which festooned its pages with extravagant coverage of the six-day visit to Japan of Britain's Prince Charles and Diana. In Tokyo, 92,000 people showed up to catch a glimpse or a snapshot of the royal couple's motorcade. Diana, who left a wake of look-alike haircuts wherever she went, participated in a tea ceremony, donned an elegant kimono in Kyoto and attended...
Coming off a six-day layoff, the laxmen couldn't find the spark that lifted them to a stunning victory over St. John's a week...
...freestyle, Suhs set a team record of 24.51, good for sixth in the race, while in the 100 backstroke, the Springfield, Ill. native broke her own six-day old team best, establishing a new record of 59.68 seconds and earning fifth place overall...
...good for safety." Insisted a NASA engineer: "We are being driven by a launch manifest, not hardware capability or concerns about anything else." NASA has in fact been pushing its contractors for faster delivery of shuttle components, and many of these companies have been pressing their employees into working six-day weeks with heavy overtime. But whether the speedup in any way contributed to the Challenger disaster is not clear...
...wish to remain. Earlier this month Bronfman made another visit to Moscow, and last week sources familiar with the talks confirmed that he has been serving as a conduit in tentative negotiations between the Soviets and Israelis, whose diplomatic relations were broken off by Moscow following the 1967 Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel. The highly secret purpose of these talks, say these sources: to engineer the airlift of possibly thousands of Soviet Jews to Israel...