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...customers expressed their discontent violently. At one store in the city of Rosario, shoppers attacked clerks who tried to hike prices. Some law-abiding retailers complained that public opinion was turning against them. "We worry about the tone of the price-control operation," said Carlos de la Vega, a spokesman for the Argentine Chamber of Commerce. "People blame...
...vanguard of an international effort to study the comet, the Soviet Union recently launched two 4.5-ton unmanned space probes laden with cameras and sensors. And in an extraordinary show of East-West scientific collaboration, two U.S.-designed comet-dust analyzers are tucked aboard the Soviet vessels. Named Vega 1 and 2, after the first letters from the Russian words for Venus and Halley, the two craft are scheduled to deliver landing modules to the surface of Venus in June 1985; they will then spin off to rendezvous nine months later within 6,000 miles of Halley...
...Vega 1 and 2 will be joined by three other spacecraft. Next January, Japan will launch its MST5 probe, followed in July by the eleven-nation European Space Agency's spacecraft, Giotto, and Japan's second probe, PlanetA, in August. The five craft will be coordinated to analyze the comet from different distances, with the closest probe, Giotto, programmed to come within 300 miles...
...Independent Liberal Party, announced last week that he too was dropping out. "There are not sufficient guarantees for an electoral process," said a Liberal Party official. "The results could not sincerely reflect the majority will of the Nicaraguan people." If that were not enough, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, head of the national bishops' conference, last week criticized the junta for using "violent and repressive measures" and imposing "a regime that plunders, imprisons and constantly calls people to arms...
...Napoleón Duarte slipped in by a side aisle, while U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering took a seat near the back. All had come to honor Lieut. Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios, a man whose title only partly explained his importance. "Domingo was a good man," said the Rev. Manuel Vega in his eulogy. "Yesterday, today and for all times, Domingo is a patriot...