Word: tape
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Smith's remark, heard on a tape of the shuttle's intercom system, was the first indication that any of the seven astronauts killed may have been aware of the January 28 disaster, the worst in the history of space exploration...
...also been charged with the 1976 murder of two cousins of Dusmarsais Estime, President of Haiti during the 1940s. Desyr had been scheduled to stand trial on those charges last week, but the Estime murder trial was postponed to allow Desyr to appeal his conviction. Two 90-minute tape recordings of the torturing of the Estimes were seized from Desyr's home last February. The tapes, filled with screams, have been broadcast on Haitian radio stations. At one point on the tape, Desyr orders a man torturing one of the cousins to "break his finger...
...rebut that point, NASA last week belatedly claimed that preliminary analysis of cabin voice recordings shows that "the crew was unaware of the events associated with the tragedy." Said one NASA technician: "The tape ends just like the lights going out." But NASA would not reveal the contents of the taped conversations and said that reporters would have to file freedom-of-information requests to acquire transcripts. (Cockpit conversations in airliner accidents, by contrast, are routinely included in federal investigation reports.) The Smith suit faces two obstacles: survivors of military personnel are barred from suing the Government...
...exhibit hall, 55 suppliers discreetly displayed their publications, a bewildering array of Bible translations and the latest wares for the compleat modern missioner. While television is the engine of U.S. evangelism, it is of no use to most of these frontier workers. A hand-cranked cassette tape player was the favorite gadget for preachers who cannot afford batteries and operate in areas that lack electricity...
...incident involved a presidential tape and former Nixon Counsel and Convicted Watergate Conspirator Chuck Colson. This time, though, the President was Jimmy Carter, the tape was a carpenter's measurer, and the locale was a four-unit apartment building under construction in Chicago. Both men were participating in a project of Habitat for Humanity, a Georgia-based outfit that builds homes for the poor. Carter has done previous Habitat stints in New York City, but this was the first such outing for Colson, now a born- again Christian and founder-head of Prison Fellowship Ministries. He finds the ex-President...