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...watching from the sidelines as his partybegan to prepare for the 1988 presidentialelections, Thornburgh could not resist as he sawGary Hart's candidacy self-destruct in a week andVice-President George Bush fail to do well at thepolls. In June, Thornburgh gave his approval toaides' urgings that he at least consider a run forthe Republican nomination...
...issue in the Hart story, it was frequently argued in editorials, was not sex, it was character. There have been acres of speculation, some of it good and some of it mere psychobabble, about his will to self-destruct. But the question of privacy invaded remains. Why was the Miami Herald in such a hurry that it could not even wait to check its facts properly? And what right did Reporter Paul Taylor of the Washington Post have to ask Hart at that televised press conference, "Have you ever committed adultery?" To such a question, said Columnist William Safire...
...years, but last week the sturdy workhorse suffered a rare failure. Less than a minute after lift-off from Pad 36B at Cape Canaveral in threatening weather, a $78 million, 137-ft. rocket disappeared into rain- swollen thunderheads and went out of control. A range safety officer hit the destruct button, and the rocket exploded along with its payload, an $83 million communications satellite. For NASA, struggling to recover from the loss of the Challenger shuttle 14 months ago, the aborted flight broke a string of seven successful launches since September. The cause was not immediately known, although a leading...
...Before that time a lot of turmoil and changes are going to be happening in the world. We don't believe the world will self-destruct. Through it all we're going to reach world peace, but a lot of us won't be here for it," she says...
...apparent rupture in the strong rocket casing--whether at a seam or elsewhere--had the effect of pointing a torch at the side of Challenger's fuel tank. The theory is that the flame either burnt through the tank or a "destruct package," causing the explosion, or raised the tank pressure to intolerable limits with the same result...