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Last week Rogan, who lives in Saginaw, Mich., and says he has never been to California, sued the city of Los Angeles and two of its detectives for leaving his name in crime computers after he had repeatedly asked them to clear him. Rogan says the snafu caused him family problems and cost him a chance for a job. "I started drinking more," he says. "All I could think about was .38s at the side of my head...
After resolving a computer snafu, admissions officials over the weekend discovered that there are 200 more applicants for the class of, '89 than they originally thought...
...scrubbed mission may be the biggest snafu in NASA'S glitch-plagued shuttle program. Never before has a countdown been interrupted after a main engine was ignited. Once engines are sparked and combustible materials released, the likelihood of a launch-pad tragedy escalates dramatically. As it turns out, experts who studied high-speed film of Discovery's firing taken right before shutdown believe that something was burning that should not have been. Normally, the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxgygen that combine in the engine nozzles to fuel the shuttle at takeoff produce billows of clean white steam...
...Sousa march, Ronald Reagan jauntily mounted the podium in the Sheraton Washington hotel to say he was sorry. His audience, members of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, had been scheduled to take a VIP tour of the White House the day before. But due to a snafu in scheduling, the East Room was already occupied (ironically enough, by a conference on government efficiency), and the group was turned away. Fully aware that his relatively low popularity among women could cost him in 1984, the President tried to defuse the situation with a bit of humor. Said...
...this extension because he says it would subvert the intent of the law insteal of providing colleges with more time. However, if the law is to be carried out currently--it is only non-registrants who should be deprived of aid--not those who get caught in a bureaucratic snafu. In fact, Moynihan supports the bill but understands that if the Department of Education is going to do something, it should be done right--even if it takes one more month. The House of Representatives should take the Senate's lead and extend the deadline...