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Today, nearly nine years later, Young, now 50, is ready to command the Columbia space shuttle on its maiden voyage, scheduled for March. A former Navy jet pilot who retired in 1976 with the rank of captain, Young logged four trips into outer space between 1965 and 1972. His co-pilot in Columbia will be Robert Crippen, 43, a Navy captain and jet pilot. The two have more than 12,000 hours flying time and an almost boyish sense of excitement about getting the chance to control the most sophisticated flying machine ever built...
Japanese-made autos currently command 10.3% of sales in West Germany, almost double the level of just one year ago. Because of lower labor costs, more efficient production and currency differences, a Toyota now sells in West Germany for up to 20% less than a Volkswagen. A recent cover on the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel showed a yellow car with slanted eyes for headlights and buck teeth projecting over the bumper. Since West Germany ships 27% of its national production of goods abroad, the Bonn government thinks that it cannot impose import restrictions on Japanese cars without risking a damaging...
Following his dismissal from the party, the army kicked Uspensky out of the intelligence service, but because he was intelligent and capable, the army gave him command of an infantry regiment. Uspensky grins at the memory. "The funny thing about it was that on the intelligence staff all I did was sit with maps analyzing information. As a commander, I was in a position to open the front to the Germans...
BECAUSE OF HIS FAMILIARITY with Tito, Djilas elaborately portrays Tito's love of power and the adulation, the command, and the high living available to him. The details--he took over some of the king's villas and even some of the royal customs, such as being godfather to the ninth child in every family--are objectionable, but these personal weaknesses cannot alone destroy a country. Ignoring the forces inside and outside of the country can lead to the country's deterioration, and, Djilas concedes, Tito cannot be accused of this mistake. For Djilas sees Tito as a "politican...
...felt that none of the people named to the committee was truly interested in gay issues." This is untrue. I have not made any such statement. In the letter to the Executive Committee I did write, "With all due modesty, I feel that few CHUL members have my command of an issue of such importance to me." I have the greatest respect for the persons appointed to the subcommittee...