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...titled "Victory Strategy: Post Convention to Labor Day." It read, "The Goal: Get Campaign on the Offensive. Create Momentum. Hurt Clinton." Can't argue with that. The idea was to use the time leading up to the convention "to re-establish the right/wrong and moral-crisis agenda." Dole should launch his "tax cut/growth plan" during the convention, they said, then promote it on a whistle-stop tour...
DIED. JUNIUS JAYEWARDENE, 90, former President of Sri Lanka, whose reforms helped launch its economy but whose inability to stop a civil war has brought the country to a crash and cost it 50,000 lives so far; in Colombo...
...however, just as public interest has been rekindled by the first hints that there might have been life on Mars, ships from the U.S. and Russia are starting to fly again. On Nov. 6, NASA is scheduled to launch an unmanned craft that should be orbiting Mars by this time next year. Ten days later, Russia will fire off a second one, and two weeks after that, NASA will loft a third. If all goes well, NASA hopes to loose a flock more during the next 10 years. "After a hiatus of 20 years," says NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, "America...
...Mars Global Surveyor, which NASA will launch this week, is one of these new spacecraft. Tipping the scale at 2,337 lbs., it is less than half the weight of the 5,672-lb. Observer. Just as important, it cost only $135 million--milk money next to the Observer's near billion-dollar price...
...December NASA and Russian officials will meet in Washington to discuss a joint 2001 Mars mission that may make use of the shelved Russian rover. NASA itself has even more ambitious plans. With $100 million a year in Mars money promised by Congress, the space agency hopes to launch a pair of flights like Surveyor and Pathfinder every two years until...