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There are more practical reasons for a joint mission. Neither nation alone can easily afford the estimated $40 billion price tag. And even that figure is conservative; it assumes the existence of the $10 billion orbiting U.S. space station, now scheduled for completion around 1992, which will be used as a platform to assemble and launch the Mars-bound rocket...
...moon. A hypothetical round trip, including a Mars layover, would take two to three years and require a craft that with the requisite fuel, oxygen, solid food and other "consumables" might weigh 500 tons. From ten to 20 shuttle trips would be needed just to ferry to the space station the pieces that would eventually be assembled into a Mars ship...
Washington has long regarded Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos as the guarantor of the strategically important U.S. military facilities at Clark Air Base, located about 60 miles northeast of Manila, and the U.S. naval station at Subic Bay. But last week the Philippine National Assembly began debate on a resolution sponsored by Marcos' Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, to abrogate the 1983 bases agreement between the two countries. Enrile was responding to a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month to cut the Philippines' military aid next fiscal year from a proposed $100 million to $25 million...
Edward Dunbar seemed to have achieved the American dream. In the mid-1970s, the Castro Valley, Calif., resident started Dunbar Oil with a single discount gas station. When the oil crisis hit, business boomed, and Dunbar Oil grew into a chain of 34 stations strung around San Francisco Bay. By 1981 the company was earning more than $33 million a year...
Healy estimated that, if approved, the 96,000 square-foot police station would be ready for business in 2007 or 2008 at the earliest...