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...classic case of ships not quite passing in the night. Darkness had fallen, and the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was plying the Sea of Japan after taking part in "Team Spirit '84" military exercises with South Korean forces. Suddenly, the 80,000-ton conventionally powered vessel seemed to shudder from stem to stern. Something solid had struck it. Crewmen rushed to the starboard side just in time to catch a glimpse of what had hit the ship. A submarine without running lights was slinking off into the black waters...
...current flights, Vandenberg payloads such as meteorological and navigational satellites will not have to be placed in bulky canisters to keep them free of contamination. Instead the devices will be taken into the Payload Changeout Room, Slick Six's third movable building. This 158-ft.-high, 6,000-ton structure moves by rail toward the waiting assembly building, where a mammoth door of six panels, each measuring 30 ft. high and 130 ft. wide, will slowly rise, just like a garage door. Inside the building-within-a-building, the payload will be lifted into the orbiter's cargo...
...President's chief economic adviser came to Washing ton from a world that praised and rewarded him for his brilliance. The son of a New York City attorney, Feldstein, 44, received a bachelor's from Harvard and graduate degrees from Oxford, all in economics, and at 29 became one of the youngest full professors in Harvard's history. In 1977 he won the John Bates Clark medal from the American Economic Association, which is given every two years to the most distinguished economist age 40 or under. That same year he was named president of the National...
Worse confusion surrounded the extent and purpose of U.S. naval gunfire into Lebanon. During the battle for West Beirut two weeks ago, the New Jersey lobbed 290 16-in. shells, each weighing about a ton, into the hills behind the capital. Word spread that Weinberger had been "surprised and depressed" by the scale of the shelling and ordered it reduced. The Secretary of Defense was supposedly worried that so ferocious a bombardment would provoke hatred for the U.S. without changing the course of the battle and could possibly invite retaliation against the Marines hunkered down at the airport. Weinberger...
...acts of God go, the Olympic blizzard went too far. So devoutly wished for in the sultry days leading up to this winter carnival, the snows of Sarajevo finally fell by the ton. As a result, the first few days of the Games rivaled the man-made chaos of Lake Placid, though it must be said that Yugoslav bus drivers avoid avalanches better than U.S. hockey players...