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...space program, that NASA Administrator James Fletcher had been waging a last- ditch fight against aspects of it. Even so, in the end good soldier Fletcher declared, "We're all working together. The military is going to be in space, science is going to be there, but the private sector is also going to be there in a much more serious...
...more significant were Reagan's promises to encourage private-sector participation. Commercial space firms, for example, were assured that federal agencies would buy their launch services. Companies across the country saw the new policy as an important symbolic move. "It's great news," said Bruce Jackson, a Houston space-engineering consultant. "It's a shot in the arm, and it will snowball." But without long-term funding, presidential promises mean little. Said Consultant Christopher Kraft, former head of the Johnson Space Center: "The proof of the pudding is, Where's the bucks...
...book contends that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). the parent union of the local organizing drive, was created to represent government employees and is inexperienced in representing staff in the private sector...
...lucrative deal was among hundreds struck in the past few years in a booming sector of East-West trade: the hawking of East European talent to the West for cash or merchandise. Polish soccer goalies, Czechoslovak hockey forwards and East German handball coaches are only part of the business. Such athletes have been joined by thousands of other performers, ranging from the likes of renowned Czechoslovak Soprano Gabriela Benachkova, a diva at the prestigious Milan and Vienna opera houses, to Hungarian gypsy bands, Polish striptease artists, Bulgarian pop singers and Rumanian high-wire circus acts. Although the East bloc governments...
...curfew, which affected refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, was extended Friday evening to a neighborhood in Arab East Jerusaleum, the first time such a measure had been used there since Israel seized the sector in 1967. The restriction imposed an uneasy tranquillity in the territories, but even Rabin called it a "forced calm" likely to be shattered as soon as the Arab population was allowed back on the streets. Some curfew restrictions were lifted after complaints of food shortages. Israeli officials insisted that any shortages were self-imposed, the result of a commercial strike that has shuttered...