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...series of foul-ups had left the space station in a precarious state. A resupply mission scheduled for late July had to be canceled for lack of a rocket. And while a previous mission arrived without a hitch, the edibles had mostly disappeared -- looted, say insiders, by underpaid, overworked ground-support technicians...
...risky move may have saved Russia's manned space program from extinction. If the manual attempt had failed, the three cosmonauts on board Mir would have had to abandon the craft and board an emergency re-entry vehicle. High jinks on the ground made their predicament far worse: underpaid ground-support technicians stole many of their edibles before takeoff, and the cosmonauts were subsisting on recycled wastewater and food two years past its expiration date. There were international cheers for the rescue mission, but it has also raised doubts among the partners who have joined with Russia for future space...
...says Russia might be the last to know: "The Germans have lost confidence that the Russian accounting system is at all accurate. The Russians don't know what they've got -- even (Boris) Yeltsin doesn't know much about this." Meanwhile, Stern, a German news magazine, reported that some underpaid workers at Russian facilities were eager to steal
Graf, Courier, Stich and Edberg may be gone, but as Wimbledon moves through its final week, Gangji and the other 359 umpires employed by the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club for the tournament stoically march through the draw. Underpaid and often abused by the churlish multimillionaires they judge, umpires must display the probity of a Supreme Court Justice, the acuity of a marksman and the patience of a marriage counselor...
...much may be at stake? Robert Stone, a tax expert consulted by , has estimated the Clintons might have underpaid their income taxes by $11,000 in 1978-79-80 because they took deductions for interest on Whitewater-related loans to which they were not entitled. With interest and penalties, they would have to pay about $30,000 now to clear the debt. According to estimates prepared for by the accounting firm Grant Thornton, the First Couple's debt might come to $53,632 in an absolute worst case -- $13,744 in taxes, the rest in interest...