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...rival (TIME Daily) ... Hundreds of passengers are feared dead after a ferry sank off the coast of Haiti (Reuters) ... Paula Jones' lawyers want out of her suit against President Clinton (TIME Daily) ... The illness that helped bring down Mobutu Sese Seko finally killed the former Zairean dictator (TIME Daily) ... Mir's main computer fails, but the crew sleeps on (TIME Daily) ... Palestinians are cracking down on Islamic militants as Madeleine Albright prepares for her Mideast peace mission (Reuters) ... Mourning continues for Princess Diana (People) and Mother Teresa (Life), while the "Saint of Calcutta" appears set for cyberspace beatification (The Netly...
...least it wasn't for nothing: before closing the hatch again at 3 a.m. EDT, the pair manually realigned two solar panels on the Spektr module, which should boost their power supply to about 90 percent. Another spacewalk is tentatively planned for next month. TIME Daliy's Mir coverage...
...lead story on the evening news (which would have suited the self-denying saint of Calcutta just fine). Once it was announced, the news from Paris loomed like a tidal wave that seemed to dwarf the rest of the world. All of a sudden nobody cared about Mir or Miami, the Olympics or E.coli; the People's Princess was from our hearts untimely ripped, and that...
MOSCOW: Maybe it's not all their fault. As the finger-pointing continues over June's collision between a cargo ship and Mir's Spektr module, a panel of top Russian space officials said that ground controllers must share some of the blame with cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin. That's something of a relief for the two spacemen, who earlier this week were fingered by Valery Ryumin, coordinator of the NASA-Mir mission, as the sole culprits in the crack...
...While the duo now have someone to share the blame with, Ryumin still claims the cosmonauts alone caused the accident and that he has "irrefutable evidence" to prove it. Perhaps. But as deputy director of Energia, the company which built Mir, Ryumin has an interest in blaming the workmen rather than the tools...