Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race--if you could call it that--was frustrating." Soghikian added. "After the start we were ahead a little, but at 300 meters we came out of a cove and we hit rough water. We had a rolling wake hit us from behind, a tailwind kick up the whitecaps, and a cross current from the bouncing waves from an adjacent seawall hit us--all at the same time...
Forget Star Wars, with future shuttles zapping each other with lasers and death rays. Those are far, far off, and may never be feasible. But in the wake of Columbia's triumph, no one at the Pentagon-or the Kremlin-is minimizing the shuttle's military importance. Even Columbia's commander, John Young, a former Navy test pilot, could not resist plugging the space shuttle's military possibilities. Said he, at a homecoming in Houston last week: "I think the American public is going to get their money's worth out of this baby...
...wake of the incidents, other recent travelers report, the Soviets have taken over more responsibility for security in the city from the undermanned Afghan army. At 30,000, the army is less than half the strength of two years ago. Efforts to lure new recruits and persuade regulars to extend their tours of duty have not been very successful last year, informed sources say, policemen rioted in Kabul when they were told that they would not be released from the force after two years of compulsory service. In the fracas, windows of the Soviet library and bookshop were broken. There...
...main opponent of these groups is a fledgling lobby called Handgun Control Inc., which was founded by former Du Pont Executive Nelson Shields III after his 23-year-old son became a victim of San Francisco's "Zebra" killings in 1974. In the wake of the murders last December of Musician John Lennon and Author-Cardiologist Michael Halberstam,* membership jumped from 90,000 to 130,000. Sacks of mail, including donations, were arriving last week at the organization's Washington headquarters in response to ads taken out after the Reagan shooting. Handgun Control...
...ruling Union of the Democratic Center. They had hoped to woo away the U.C.D.'s fickle liberal wing and form a broad majority coalition. This now seems unlikely, since it would split the U.C.D. and thus endanger the entire party system-a prospect that, in the wake of the coup attempt, chills practically everybody but the military. Part of the problem is Socialist Leader Felipe González, who, at 39, is considered too young and untried. "We lost the next general election on the night of Feb. 23," says a senior Socialist strategist. "The middle classes...