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Three carloads of heavily armed men arrived at the American embassy in the Beirut suburb of Aukur last week to make a delivery. Their cargo: American Steven John Donahue, 32. His release followed nearly eleven months as a captive of Lebanese drug traffickers. Donahue said later his family had paid more than $400,000 to obtain his freedom...
...called Orient Express), capable of taking off from runways and soaring into orbit, and a new generation of reusable rocket-powered craft that would reach orbit with a single-stage engine. These two new vehicles would compete to see which would become the shuttle's successor, carrying passengers and cargo between earth and the space station. Yet another craft, a kind of space truck, would also be created to move crews and material from space stations to geosynchronous orbits (22,300 miles up) and the moon...
...charges that venal managers at NASA deliberately decided to ignore known problems that endangered the shuttle astronauts. But to cope with its unfamiliar duties in operating a dual-purpose passenger and cargo service, NASA created a decentralized structure that the Rogers commission is expected to criticize. Its headquarters in Washington lost effective control of its operational arms at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The centers, in turn, seemed uncertain about their relation to one another. At the same time, the private contractors supplying...
...government of Taiwan was acutely embarrassed earlier this month when a pilot from the island's privately owned commercial airline diverted his Boeing 747 cargo jet to Canton and announced that he was defecting to mainland China. To recover the plane, Taiwan's government reluctantly authorized representatives of China Airlines to negotiate directly with the mainland's Civil Aviation Administration of China. Last week, after four days of talks in Hong Kong, the two organizations agreed on terms for the return to Taiwan of the $62 million aircraft, as well as the copilot and flight engineer, who were unwilling passengers...
...keenly aware of his story's film potential. No producer will be confused by the tense hunting scene, the Indian dance that mocks the white man's efforts to saddle atomic energy, the Rocky-like prizefight that pits Pena against a younger opponent, an eerie trip with a radioactive cargo, and a climactic battle to the death next to the Bomb in the last minutes before the blast. Smith is also capable of subtler effects. His spare prose shapes images that contain haunting affinities: wild horses and Army jeeps; rattlesnakes and coils of electrical cable; the lustrous surfaces of ceremonial...