Star Wars planners outline seven layer missile shield
The Defense Department plan for a seven layer missile defense involves space and ground weapons, lasers, interceptors, and countermeasures to spare 3,500 U.S. targets from attack. The study describes clouds of space pellets to defeat decoys and notes phase one is conceptual with five contractors continuing work.
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Washington
Defense Department
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
United States
Space
Earth
Pentagon
John Gardner
Gardner
U.S
Air leak forces NASA astronauts to search for source on Challenger
An air leak traced to a furnace and a ground fire cut communications with the shuttle Challenger crew. Officials said no danger to astronauts or mission as oxygen nitrogen flow spiked then dropped after the crew shut a furnace door and restored power to a ground computer.
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Space Center, Houston
International
Space Agency
Bourgois
White Sands Center
Mission Control
Papandreou Warns Of Greek Chaos Amid Unrest And Bomb
Athens Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou told his Cabinet that the combination of labor strikes and a bus bombing created a threat of insecurity and chaos akin to 1967. He warned that forces of reaction inside and outside Greece could exploit instability as unions press austerity measures.
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Athens
Greece
Andreas Papandreou
Papandreou
Five robbers loot Reflections in Gold and Diamonds
Five masked suspects dressed as old men robbed Reflections in Gold and Diamonds in Lauderhill on Halloween. They seized jewelry worth between three quarters of a million and 1.25 million. Broward County investigators call it a planned professional job. Store manager Carol Hirsch called the event horrifying.
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Lauderhill
Fla
Reflections In Gold and Diamonds
Broward County
George Slinkman
Carol Hirsch
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Joe Rinas
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D. Klinefelter
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Tioga
Westdale Mall & Lindale Plaza
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