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With its crew of five astronauts, one civilian engineer and one Senator, the shuttle Discovery's primary task is to launch two satellites. The first worked, but a military communications satellite launched Saturday suffered an apparent power failure and drifted uselessly in space. The astronauts are also expected to spend time toying around. To demonstrate the laws of physics to schoolchildren, they will be videotaped playing with such dime-store goodies as yo-yos, spinning tops, a Slinky and a windup mouse...
...Since Soviet leader Yuri Andropov never responded to his invitation to visit Cherry Drive and sign a treaty, Petty decides to fortify his house and garden against such an invasion. But the bank promptly denies the pair a loan to purchase the necessary hardware, forcing Petty and Roger to launch a fundraising drive for their tanks and aircraft. They ask Prince Charles to appear at a teatime piano concert featuring one of their neighbors: he politely declines. They plan a "Bring-and-Buy" sale and ask Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to contribute an item. But they receive no help...
...time of last week's announcement, ABC was not the object of a takeover attempt by anyone outside the broadcasting field, but at least one other network was under siege. Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina has helped launch an effort by Fairness in Media, a conservative group, to buy up CBS and, as he put it, "become Dan Rather's boss." The Washington Post reported last week that Atlanta's Ted Turner, the cable-TV entrepreneur, told CBS lawyers that he had had extensive discussions with Helms about taking over...
...tests the MX has given every indication that it can ably carry out its assigned function: conveying up to ten nuclear warheads to separate targets over ranges that exceed 8,000 miles. The missile, which is 71 ft. long, 92 in. in diameter and weighs 190,000 lbs. at launch, fires through four stages. In the final phase, a 4-ft.-long "bus," steered by an on-board guidance system and small propulsion jets, maneuvers to release the warheads on trajectories that would deliver them within 200 ft. of their precise destination...
...point, however, did Andropov indicate that he intended to launch a wholesale attack on the main pillars of the bureaucratic system, such as central planning and nonmarket pricing. One of the few attempts to decentralize economic decision making under Andropov--legislation to encourage worker participation in factory management--left the Communist Party with close control over its worker delegates and required only that managers "consult and inform" workers about their plans twice a year...