Panel cites booster rocket failure in Challenger explosion
NASA engineers told a presidential commission that the right solid rocket booster failed and caused the Challenger disaster. They pinpoint the SRB joint as the initial fault while full causes remain under study.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Touma
Lee
Dusecun
Thomas L. Moser
Commission
William P. Rogers
Morton Thiokol Inc
Marshall
Morton Thiokol
Jerrol Littles
Rogers
Littles
Water contamination probes in Adamstown raise cancer fears
About 150 Adamstown residents learned that elevated trichloroethane and trichloroethylene were found last summer in eight homes near Trans-Tech Inc. contaminants now affect 13 Weete Bocas PALge homes. A state toxicologist warns daily exposure increases cancer risk as officials plan a $100,000 project to supply safe water from a distant system.
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Art Caple
State Waste Management Administration
Adamstown
Carroll Manor
Trans-Tech Inc
Weete Bocas Palge
Trans-Tech
Bruce Jacobs
State Office of Environmental
Frederick County
Frederick firm ordered to repay post office
Frederick Manufacturing Company Inc. admitted to nearly 12000 in contract overcharges to the U S Postal Service for wear analysis on equipment used by the Post Office. President James T McGovern said the admission covers a 1979 1980 contract. The firm faces a maximum 16000 fine plus restitution and sentencing is set for April 22.
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Frederick High Tech Automation
U.S. Postal Service
Baltimore Federal District Court
Frederick Manufacturing Company Inc
Wisner St
James T McGovern
Aan
McGovern
Federal
Parole Department
Frank A. Kaufman
United States Postal Service
Robert J. Mathias
U.S Attorney General
Frederick Manufacturing
Post Office
Mathias
Democrats wary of Habib trip to Central America
President Reagan faces congressional resistance as Philip Habib is named to press Central America policy amid calls to fund the Contra rebels. House Democrats question policy shifts while rebels say they will unite against the Nicaraguan government, and a Senate aide notes slight change in outlook despite past envoys failing.
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Central America
Washington
Reagan
Philip Habib
Congress
Nicaragua
White House
Larry Speakes
George P Shultz
David Obey
House
Ach
Obey
Jim Slattery
D-Kan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Francisco Campbell
Richard Stone
Harry Shlaudeman
Weather Ledger Notes Bitter Cold Overnight In Maryland
A fragmentary weather note from Maryland warns of bitterly cold tonight with warmer conditions forecast tomorrow. The item mixes garbled phrases and stray names, but clearly centers on a regional forecast and routine meteorological update.
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Emerrow
Weners
Maryland
Oseatears
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