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...other ship. Voyager 2 is not scheduled to pass Saturn until next August. Because it is taking such a different trajectory, Voyager 2 will be able to study some of the moons that had to be bypassed during last week's encounter. It will also be able to sail on to Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Thus, if the spacecraft's instruments are still functioning, J.P.L. scientists and engineers may eventually achieve a Grand Tour after...
...will be dominated by the left-wing local parties and powerful unions. Running under the new rules, Healey might have been beaten by the divisive champion of the party's radical left, M.P. Tony Benn. As it is, the popular Foot is expected to preempt House challenge and sail through vigor the next leadership election virtually unopposed. If he becomes Prime Minister any time soon, the relationship between Washington and London would be strained. A much greater philosophical contrast than that between Foot and U.S. President-elect Ronald Reagan cannot readily be imagined...
Iraq also reported that 60 neutral ships trapped in the Shatt al-Arab waterway by the battle for Khorramshahr are now free to sail under the banner of the International Red Cross (IRC) into the Persian Gulf...
...Sailing ships have crisscrossed oceans since the Egyptians first ventured out into the Red Sea and the Mediterranean about 3000 B.C. But the last sail-powered cargo ship left the seaways in the 1950s. The development of diesel engines, cheap fuel, tight shipping schedules and the expense of large crews to handle the sails eventually ended the era of sailing cargo ships. But now the economics of transportation are changing. Marine engine fuel, which accounts for 25% to 30% of a ship's operating costs, has gone up over 400% in the past seven years...
...technology of wind-assisted transport ships is relatively simple. West German Engineer Wilhelm Prölss did major research on the subject in the mid-1960s, but his studies went unnoticed during a time of cheap energy. The new sailing ships are not entirely dependent upon wind, but rather use the breezes to cut down the work of the regular engines. Says Frank K. Schallenberger, who formed Dynaship Corp. to use Prölss's designs: "I don't see how it's possible for shipbuilders and shipowners to ignore sail-powered ships. Five percent...