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Today, nearly nine years later, Young, now 50, is ready to command the Columbia space shuttle on its maiden voyage, scheduled for March. A former Navy jet pilot who retired in 1976 with the rank of captain, Young logged four trips into outer space between 1965 and 1972. His co-pilot in Columbia will be Robert Crippen, 43, a Navy captain and jet pilot. The two have more than 12,000 hours flying time and an almost boyish sense of excitement about getting the chance to control the most sophisticated flying machine ever built...
Prompting massive national protests--including those at Jackson State and Kent State, where students died--the U.S. bombing and invasion of Cambodia in 1970 will never rank as a popular event in American history. Those leftover sentiments--right or wrong--have shaped the analysis of recent Cambodian history--especially regarding the brutality of Pol Pot--and prevented reasonable assessment. Most efforts to discuss the issues generally reduce to a guilty hysteria which places the blame for all atrocities upon the United States. Guilt may be a justifiable response to the Cambodian invasion but to label it a definitive history...
Just 2½ years ago, she was Lisa Halaby, daughter of a former Pan Am president, Princeton grad, aspiring architect and freewheeling all-American girl. Then she became the fourth wife of Jordan's King Hussein, now 46, and nothing -not her name, nationality, religion or rank-is the same. Jordan's 29-year-old Queen Nur has mastered Arabic, become involved in her country's arts and environmental movement and, after a miscarriage, borne her husband a son, Prince Hamzah, now nine months old. Shortly after posing next to an oil portrait of Nur at Amman...
...afterglow of its August victory, the union negotiated by ultimatum: either give us what we want or we will strike. But the rank and file became more cautious late last month after the Warsaw local threatened a general strike over a series of political demands, some of which were aimed at the state security apparatus, the bedrock of Communist authority. Said Walesa then: "Let us not forget that tanks and rockets could also be the reply." On Dec. 5, Solidarity declared a six-week moratorium on strikes. It also toned down its rhetoric. When the government suspended screenings of Workers...
...trying to spread "chaos and anarchy." Said the union: "We believe that negotiations are the best way to meet understandable worker demands and defend social interests." After months of steadily intensifying demands, Solidarity's leaders late last month declared a moratorium on strikes and urged the impatient rank and file to give the government some breathing space. Not only was the strike moratorium being heeded last week, but two of Solidarity's more militant locals were sounding almost repentant. The Warsaw branch said talk of a general strike had been a "mistake"-despite the fact that the workers...