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Asif Ali Zardari faced a nasty homecoming when he flew from Dubai to Lahore last Saturday. More than 13,000 policemen cordoned off the airport and Lahore's main crossroads to keep thousands from welcoming the husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Zardari had barely unfastened his seat belt when police boarded the aircraft and hauled him away in an armed motorcade to his residence. As police bundled him off, Zardari yelled: "I've seen jail, and I'm ready to go again...
...weather is expected to be the main focus of National Transportation Safety Board investigators, who rushed to Dallas to seek the cause of the accident. While some witnesses reported that lightning had struck Flight 191, a board spokesman doubted that this would have caused the crash. "Lightning doesn't normally take an airplane down," he said. "It hasn't happened in many, many years...
Designed for a population of 1,782, Folsom today struggles to contain 3,036 maximum-security convicts, the meanest of the mean in violent crime. On the main blocks, two inmates are jammed into each of the 6-ft. by 8 ½ -ft. cells. Less than half work or attend classes. The others mainly watch daytime television and frequently turn their idle nothing-to-lose ferocity against one another. Homosexual rape has long been commonplace, and stabbings are now epidemic, averaging 19 a month, in contrast to about nine a month in 1984. Assailants wield sharpened combs and toothbrushes, melted...
...sure scared us," said Flight Director Cleon Lacefield. Less than six minutes after launch last week, while the space shuttle Challenger's speed remained well below the velocity of 17,500 m.p.h. that it must achieve to go into orbit, onboard computers shut down one of its three main engines. Reason: sensors were signaling overheating in the fuel pump. Two and a half minutes later, another engine seemed to overheat. "If the right engine had failed ... we would have been in the water," Lacefield said afterward, meaning that Challenger, with its crew of seven, would have fallen in a controlled...
...Canada and every European country except Albania. The 35 delegations had convened in the Finnish capital's modernistic Finlandia Hall to mark the tenth anniversary of the agreements on security and cooperation in Europe known as the Helsinki Accords. But for most of the participating diplomats, the main question, at a time of dramatic change in Moscow's top leadership, boiled down to the state of U.S.-Soviet relations. What would happen when the Reagan Administration dealt with the younger, if less experienced, Soviet management team that has been propelled into positions of leadership by Gorbachev since he took power...