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...operational flaws in a Soviet space program that, in manned flight at least, has far outstripped its U.S. counterpart. American experts said the Kremlin had precipitately scheduled the mission as a gesture of Soviet-Afghan friendship before Soviet troops complete their pullout from Afghanistan early next year. The hurried launch gave the three- man crew only six months to prepare as a team for a voyage that normally requires a full year of intensive training. Soviet space officials later conceded that the cosmonauts may have "lost vigilance" during the flight...
...record in affirmative action is the industry's best. Seven of the company's 89 daily papers are run by minority publishers. The company / strategy: every manager's bonus depends in part on how well affirmative-action goals are met. "When others were talking about a desire to launch training programs for minorities in management," says Jay Harris, executive editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, "Gannett was naming editors and publishers...
...task of shepherding through his education-spending plan to the Secretary of Defense, who has had far more luck in sparing his requests from the budgeteer's ax. There is ample precedent for treating education as a national-defense issue. In the panic that followed the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which vastly expanded federal support for science, math and foreign-language instruction in public schools...
Arafat plans to submit the proposals for approval to the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s 451-member legislative body, in Algiers during the first week of September. Later he hopes to launch a major diplomatic offensive, speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg and, if it can be arranged...
...accused President Corazon Aquino of incompetence earlier this month and suggested that she resign? Manila's coffeehouse circuit suspected Laurel was more concerned about his political future than good government. That theory got a boost last week when Laurel joined Juan Ponce Enrile, Aquino's former Defense Minister, to launch a new opposition party. Laurel is expected to head the alliance, which includes disgruntled supporters of Ferdinand Marcos. Said Hernando Perez, a pro-Aquino member of the House of Representatives: "Laurel will join any party that will make him President...