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...range of one of five NASA tracking stations (in Santiago, Chile; Bermuda; Ascension Island; Madrid; and Goldstone, Calif). On these "passes," controllers can still make small adjustments in the space vehicle's position relative to earth. This is possible for only four minutes out of every 90. Says Don McDonald, one team member: "It's 1½ hours of boredom, then four minutes of terror...
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After a few weeks of patrolling by the Red Berets (which the 13 are sometimes called), robberies and violence dropped on the Muggers' Express. Since then Sliwa has branched out. Every night the teams meet at Sliwa's McDonald's at 9 p.m., then head out in patrols of four. Though most members accepted into the Magnificent 13 have had some training in the martial arts, and some admit to carrying knives for protection when journeying alone at night, on patrol they have no weapons and even refused the walkie-talkie radios that the Transit Authority urged...
During a routine inspection, a team captain, Karl Smucker, 20, a cook at McDonald's, was knocked down by a thief lurking behind a garbage container. The rest of the patrol grabbed the attacker, but Smucker had already been slammed to the floor hard enough to break his jaw in two places...