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...beginning of June. By bracketing the competition, explains Barry London, Paramount's new distribution and marketing chief, "we got the film established in the marketplace." In the same vein, Mancuso decided to release Star Trek IV at Thanksgiving, rather than Christmas, leaving the way clear for the launch of The Golden Child. Says Mancuso: "We would rather compete with the competition than with ourselves...
...Senate and House also picked the members of separate select committees that will launch Iranscam investigations when Congress convenes next month. The eleven members chosen for the Senate panel are generally cautious, low- keyed and relatively conservative. All have a background in law. The chairman: Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who served on the Senate Watergate panel 13 years ago. The ranking Republican is Warren Rudman, a former New Hampshire attorney general and one of the Senate's most independent-minded members. The 15-member House committee will be chaired by Hamilton, with Richard Cheney of Wyoming, White House chief...
With President Reagan weakened by Iranscam and Congress in Democratic hands, Wright is expected to seize the initiative and launch an ambitious legislative agenda. Unlike O'Neill, who was content to let his committee chairmen dictate their schedules, Wright will probably use his post to articulate and develop the party's legislative direction. He told TIME that he intends to seek quick re-enactment of the Clean Water Bill, which the President vetoed last month, push through a highway-spending bill and draft comprehensive trade legislation...
Then, on the eve of the doomed launch, 15 Morton-Thiokol engineers agreed--unanimously--that NASA shouldn't launch the Challenger. They were fearful that overnight sub-freezing temperatures at the Kennedy Space Center would prevent the O-rings from functioning properly. (Morton-Thiokol had never bothered to test the rings' performance at such low temperatures...
That's the end of the story for seven astronauts, but not for Morton-Thiokol. Its reaction to the disaster was to find new jobs for two of the engineers who had protested most vociferously against the doomed launch. William Rogers, chairman of the Presidential Commission which investigated the disaster, was correct when he said, "It would seem to me...they should be promoted, not demoted or pushed aside...