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...Nussbaum called Hanson again, this time with a new idea: Isn't it true, he asked, that the RTC could transfer its civil probe of Madison into the hands of special prosecutor Fiske, who had been chosen two weeks earlier by Reno to launch the criminal inquiry into Whitewater? If so, Nussbaum told Hanson, she might want to inform Altman, still fully in charge of the Madison case, that such a transfer was possible under Fiske's charter. (Under oath, Nussbaum recalled suggesting this to Hanson, but insisted that he did so to help Altman get out of his conflict...
Another barrier to sending robots to the planets is weight: every pound you launch into space is expensive. At nearly a ton, Dante II would break the bank. Whittaker is already thinking about lighter models, though. And while NASA's Lavery cautions that Dante II is still "far from any sort of flight opportunity," he acknowledges that much of the technology used aboard Dante II will probably find its way into future space missions. In fact, NASA wants to launch a robot explorer toward Mars as early as 1996. And a private company working with Carnegie Mellon scientists hopes...
...closer to the fast- talking Barnum portrayed by critics. Last week Whittle Communications L.P. announced the latest in a string of setbacks. The company will halt development of the Medical News Network, an interactive news service with infomercials for doctors that was scheduled for a nationwide launch in October...
...Prime Minister. Faustin Twagiramungu said he'll respond tomorrow. The U.S. forces reportedly would use the Rwandan capital, Kigali, as a transit point instead of the jammed airport near refugee camps in the Zairian border town of Goma. The bottlenecked Goma has proved a frustrating place from which to launch a rescue effort, even though the largest contingent of refugees has gathered in and around the city. U.S. aircraft landed there today with vital equipment to purify contaminated water that has spread cholera among tens of thousands of the 1.2 million refugees...
...Soviet Union is gone. The arms race between us is over. The U.S. and Russia are not even aiming missiles at each other. They are aimed at sea, so that even an accidental launch would destroy only fish. The coming threat emanates from elsewhere, from small, determined outlaw states such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq. And before that threat we are helpless...