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...quadrennial soccer tournament three weeks ago, his speech was drowned out by an almost unprecedented chorus of boos. A few days later, Mexico City's huge Aztec Stadium, unfilled even during a major game, ran out of water. At one point its official clock broke down; at another, the sound system went dead just before the playing of the Mexican national anthem. Even the host nation's 2-1 victory over Belgium in its opening match ended in chaos as tens of thousands of celebrators rampaged through the center of the capital, commandeering public buses and tearing pieces...
...weather is unpredictable; and that some kind of crew-escape mechanism be considered, at least when the bird is gliding toward an emergency landing. (The commission conceded that no escape system could have saved the Challenger crew while the powerful launch boosters were firing.) If all those suggestions sound eminently reasonable, they could also prove highly costly and time consuming. A task seemingly as simple as testing the boosters vertically, for example, might require that two years and $20 million be devoted to building a structure that could securely hold the bottom of the 149-ft.-tall rockets some...
...cellular mobile telephones and fashion and youth magazines. According to Sigue Sigue, each advertising track will cost roughly $1,500, and the promotion will also appear on the album sleeve. The point, says Bassist James, is to keep down production costs. Besides, he notes, ''a lot of our records sound like advertisements.'' And now, vice versa...
...press conference last week, the President was guarded about the Soviet moves. But he seemed to go out of his way to sound conciliatory. In answer to a question about a recent speech, Reagan said that he must have "goofed someplace" if it appeared that he had linked Mikhail Gorbachev with Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat and Muammar Gaddafi. The President twice described Gorbachev as "the first Soviet leader to my knowledge that has ever voluntarily spoken of reducing and eliminating nuclear weapons." (Not quite: Moscow's long-standing position has been that it would someday like to see the elimination...
...attempts to sound accommodating, Reagan further muddled the issue of whether he had in fact decided to abandon the SALT II treaty. The Administration is in the process of dismantling one missile-carrying submarine, thus keeping the U.S. within the pact's ceilings. But it asserted that it would breach the limits late this year, as more B-52 bombers were equipped with cruise missiles. It is possible, however, said Spokesman Larry Speakes, that another submarine might be decommissioned when the cruise missiles put the U.S. over the SALT II limit. Exactly what are you going to do on SALT...