Space shuttle Columbia lands calmly at White Sands
Space shuttle Columbia returns to Earth at 10:05 a.m. landing on Northrup Strip after a sandstorm delayed touchdown. Commander Jack Lousma and C Gordon Fullerton piloted the craft through hypersonic reentry, noting a brief bump at Mach 2 as the craft touched down on gypsum desert floor.
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White Sands Missile Range
N.M
Columbia
Northrup Strip
Jack R. Lousma
Pacific Coast
Lousma
C. Gordon Fullerton
Earth
Tularosa Basin
Non-events mark shuttle watch at White Sands amid dust storm
At White Sands Missile Range on Northrup Strip hundreds of reporters and space shuttle technicians endured a windy dust storm as a planned shuttle landing did not occur. A bomb scare proved unfounded when a lunchbox was found to contain sandwiches and drinks, not a bomb.
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Rex Henderson
White Sands Missile Range
N.M
Northrup Strip
Army
Maj
David Olmsted
White Sands
El Salvador rightists push unity amid election turmoil
El Salvador's five leading rightist parties published a manifesto aiming for a government of national unity while preserving their ideologies. They rejected communism and reforms favored by Duarte's Christian Democrats, and signaled no solid coalition yet with ARENA. The army fought leftist guerrillas in Usulutan as Duarte warned against rightist power.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Jose Napoleon Duarte
Christian Democrats
Duarte
Guillermo Guevara
Democratic Action
Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes
Rey Prendes
ARENA
Robert d’Aubuisson
Peasants’ Unions
Galloway defense presses delay amid new evidence
Defense attorney Michael McLeaish accused prosecutors of delaying Murray Galloway's murder trial in light of new evidence he says clears the 44-year-old New Mexico man in Carmen Croan's mutilation death. Judge Gene Ater plans to rule on a request for further psychiatric testing at Rusk State Hospital.
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Murray Galloway
Galloway
Michael McLeaish
Rusk State Hospital
Gene Ater
Carmen Croan
North
Ector County
Croan
Odessa
Ater
McLeaish
Richard McKeel
Fight to fire inspectors abandoned
State prosecutors abandoned efforts to dismiss a team of federal monitors over alleged misconduct in Texas prisons. The parties agreed to try to resolve the dispute out of court as Judge William Wayne Justice ordered continued negotiations and warned against witness retaliation.
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William Wayne Justice
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