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...orbiter's landing, planned for 12:43 a.m. on Sept. 5 at Edwards Air Force Base in California, will be eerie in a different way. Like a huge ghost ship, the 100-ton Challenger will silently sweep in over the Mojave Desert with nary a beacon light blinking. It will not be visible until it is about 200 feet above the runway; then it will begin reflecting the illumination from batteries of xenon searchlights along the strip...
...ton Spanish supertanker Castillo de Bellver was lumbering around the Cape of Good Hope, some 75 miles northwest of Cape Town, on its way home with 250,000 tons of Persian Gulf crude oil, when at 1:30 a.m. crewmen discovered a fire near the ship's bridge. The crew attacked the blaze with foam extinguishers, but within minutes the fire was out of control. Said Captain Alfonso Civera: "The whole ship became an inferno...
...hulk, leaking oil at a rate of about one ton an hour, posed a danger to the dozens of ships that round the cape every day. In a daring maneuver, a private helicopter, with air force planes monitoring the situation, lowered two divers onto the wreck to attach a towline to the tanker's bow. A powerful tugboat then began to tow the wreckage 100 miles out to sea, where it will be sunk in some 6,000 feet of water...
...another self-protecting action, the A.B.A. decided to fight legislation that would give the Federal Trade Commission more power to regulate lawyers, a responsibility now held by state courts and state bar associations. "In that agency in Washington stands a hot, sweaty, dirty, two-ton gorilla with a bad case of halitosis," trumpeted Texas Delegate Frank Jones Jr. "They're asking you to dance with it. I'm saying, don't do it." His colleagues took his message, if not his metaphor. They opposed more FTC oversight by an overwhelming voice vote...
...turbines that use the pressure at the top of the furnaces to generate electricity for other steel-mill uses. Continuous casting, in which molten metal is formed directly into products for shipment and bypasses the cooling stages, helped decrease by 10% the amount of energy required to make a ton of steel. From 1973 to 1979, Japanese planners reduced the energy needed to make cars by 25% and the fuel necessary for chemicals by 23%. Total industrial-energy use has declined by about 8% since the early 1970s...