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...California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Lost in the fiery metallic shower was a Big Bird spy satellite, intended to keep a keen polar-orbit eye on the Soviets. The explosion was the second successive Titan 34D failure within a year, after nine perfect flights. NASA bravely tried another launch, and on May 3 was dismayed when its long-reliable Delta rocket, carrying a hurricane-spotting satellite, had to be detonated over Cape Canaveral after its main engine shut down prematurely and the vehicle tumbled out of control...
...space mishaps are not confined by national boundaries. An Ariane II rocket had to be destroyed by controllers when its third stage failed to ignite 4 1/2 min. into its flight. Lost with the rocket was a $90 million telecommunications satellite. It was the fourth failure in 18 Ariane launches and the third malfunction of its third-stage engine, suggesting a possible system problem. So Ariane, too, was grounded while the accident's cause is sought. Most American companies seem willing to wait out the shuttle's return. Hughes Communications, a subsidiary of the largest private American satellite maker...
...year-old member of the U.S. National Team, Kenworthy visited Guatemala. He went back to Central America last summer, not to fire centering passes or launch one of his blistering drives to the corner of the net, but to work on a collective farm and learn about Nicaragua's revolution...
...fundraising game now has higher stakes than ever before, and Harvard won't be left behind in the nationwide race for donations. Forty universities across the country are pushing to raise more than $1 million each, amounting to a combined goal of nearly $7 billion. Stanford University will soon launch the biggest drive ever--to raise $1 billion. In December 1984, Harvard wrapped up its largest campaign by raising $360 million for the College and public policy programs alone. The country's richest school also raked in more contribution dollars--$145 million from individual donors and corporations--than any other...
Buthelezi's political base is the 1 million-strong Inkatha, the Zulu movement he leads. On May Day, when militant black union leaders who favor divestiture spearheaded a nationwide walkout, Buthelezi staged a rally to launch a new labor organization to challenge them. "Why are they so persistent to push disinvestment even with the knowledge that we blacks, whom they purport to be helping, are the ones who will suffer most?" he asks...