Shuttle flights delayed due to booster redesign tests
An AP report states NASA expects space shuttles to remain grounded into 1988 as a new solid fuel booster redesign undergoes three full-scale tests. The Rogers commission blamed a booster joint failure on the Challenger explosion and ordered a redesign. Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center and Morton Thiokol have chosen two redesign candidates.
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Marshall Spaceflight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Morton Thiokol
Utah
Ex fugitive lawyer cleared in San Quentin riot case
A Marin County jury acquitted Stephen Bingham on two murder counts and a conspiracy charge over the 1971 San Quentin riot that left six dead. The verdict came after 13 years as a fugitive.
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Spilotro Brothers Mourned at Private Chicago Funeral
Reputed mobsters Anthony and Michael Spilotro were mourned at a flower-decked funeral home five days after their bodies were found in an Indiana cornfield. About 300 mourners attended the non denomi national service with a homily by Rev John Fearon.
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Anthony
Michael Spilotro
Indiana
Salerno
Gatewood
John Fearon
St. Bernadine’s Church
Forest Park
Administration rejects World Court ruling on Nicaragua dispute
The Reagan administration rejected the World Court verdict backing Nicaragua, saying it would not be bound by the decision and had long maintained the court is not equipped to handle such complex facts. A Nicaraguan lawyer expects Sandinistas to seek more than $1 billion in reparations.
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World Court
Nicaragua
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State Department
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U.S
Redman
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