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...salvage from Congress in the next few weeks, the uproar over its Central American policy will reverberate throughout the fall presidential campaign. Added to the debacle in Lebanon and the icy state of relations with the Soviet Union, the mining episode has revived an image of Reagan as both trigger-happy and inept in foreign policy. That is just the image the Democrats intend to build up. Cried Walter Mondale on the stump last week: "Ronald Reagan's misguided and counterproductive policies in Central America are widening, militarizing and Americanizing the conflicts, and it's gotten worse every...
...device refused to work. "O.K., the jaws didn't fire that time," Nelson radioed after his first attempt. Twice more, with increasing force, he banged against Max without results (TPAD has no manual trigger for an astronaut to operate). Nelson's efforts turned the gentle wobble of Solar Max, whose inoperable attitude controls had been shut down as a precaution by its ground controllers, into a precarious, crazy cartwheel. Radioed a frustrated Crippen: "Is there any way that you think you can do it with your hands...
...have been bothered by Alvarez's embrace of the U.S. training center in Honduras for Salvadoran troops: many Honduran officers have lingering memories of their country's 1969 war with El Salvador. Some soldiers fear that at a future date border disputes between the two countries might trigger a return engagement, this time against Salvadoran troops trained in Honduras...
...wallowed in American technological know-how, inspecting a solar-powered village in Davis before sitting down with high-powered Silicon Valley executives at Stanford University. The French President was rapt when Whiz-Kid Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., explained how venture capital and small companies helped trigger the Silicon Valley boom...
...firm of Rolf Jensen and Associates will test the University's $2 million system for sensitivity and stability, making sure that humidity and dust will not continue to trigger off the system. The company will make recommendations in mid-to late May, a spokesman said...