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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: Place your bets, please: will NASA Astronaut David Wolf fly aboard the Shuttle Atlantis Thursday on a Mir-bound mission? Not if Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. has his way. The House Science Committee chairman has been against sending any more boys up that way since June's collision between the Spektr module and a cargo ship, and wants to protect Wolf from becoming "an assistant Mr. Fix-It" aboard the embattled Russian station. That Wolf himself is quite keen to go appears to be beside the point...
...name the rocks whatever he wants. It's O.K. for animated films to be funny. And Ehrenreich's sense of wonder and awe at the mysteries of life must be extremely fragile and shallow if it can be spoiled by a few artifacts of popular culture. DAVID TIDGWELL Orlando, Fla...
...TAMPA, Fla.: Fresh charges that the recently reinstated president of the National Baptist Convention misappropriated thousands of dollars in donations to black churches will probably not cause his ouster, says TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Sylvester Monroe. But now there's the possibility that the law will be his downfall. For now, Henry Lyons isn't talking about a Tampa Tribune report alleging he failed to distribute some of the $225,000 received from the Anti-Defamation and National Urban leagues to rebuild black churches destroyed in arson attacks. But six of the seven churches say they were short-changed...
...thought at the time, "You are going to be paying me while I play." And so he has, and his children and grandchildren also will be doing so because I expect to be hanging in there 18 more years. ELLEN M. GREER Kissimmee, Fla...
...done is put off the real task of cutting government spending to a manageable level. The financial threat to Medicare and Social Security is looming on the horizon, but all the politicos can focus on is getting re-elected. Term limits are the only answer. ERNEST J. ALLEN Dunnellon, Fla...