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Japan. Unlike its Asian neighbors, which are still in the launch phase of industrial development, Japan has already reached cruising altitude. Said Bunroku Yoshino, director of the Institute for International Economic Studies in Tokyo: "Japan is very comfortable, like the U.S. was in the 1950s under President Eisenhower." He predicted that unemployment, now only about 2.5%, may go to 2% in 1984. Exports were up about 10% in the third quarter of the year and will stay strong. Japan's car manufacturers have unveiled new models that will undoubtedly dazzle foreign customers...
...terrorists attempting to overthrow that government. Daniel Ortega Saavedra, head of Nicaragua's junta, charged last week that the U.S. is preparing to manufacture a provocation that would justify an invasion. The revitalization of a Central American defense alliance known as CONDECA might serve as the vehicle to launch an American attack. The military chiefs of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala secretly met with the head of the U.S. Southern Command a month ago in Guatemala and agreed that the aims of CONDECA included "the use of force against Marxism." Edgar Chamorro, a leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force...
NASA, meanwhile, had its own difficulties. Last week the space shuttle Columbia was still resting in its hangar at Florida's Kennedy Space Center following the postponement of its launch scheduled for Oct. 28. Officials suspected there were flaws in the thermal insulation on the nozzle of one of Columbia's two strap-on solid-propellant booster rockets. Similar coating on a rocket nozzle recovered from the previous shuttle flight in August turned out, on postflight inspection, to be just a hairline away from burning through. Some space officials said that if the rocket had fired only...
...will perform a wide variety of experiments while parked in the shuttle's open cargo bay. At Kennedy last week crews stripped away the questionable booster while tests continued on why the insulating material failed. NASA said that there would be no firm word on a new launch date before Nov. 1. Lift-off could take place as soon as Nov. 28, but if that "window" is missed, the next opportunity would not come before next February because of the alignments of moon, sun and stars required for Spacelab's astronomical experiments...
However, the groups did make the final decision whether to launch a nuclear attack Last night's game came to a happy conclusion, both advisories voting for a cease-fire...