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Former President Gerald Ford is hospitalized in California with pneumonia-like symptoms, his office says.

Reagan's Revolution The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All by Craig Shirley Nelson Current, 417 pp., $25.99   LATE ON THE EVENING OF August 19, 1976, at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, prospects looked bleak for the Republican party and even bleaker for the conservative movement. Gerald R. Ford had just barely survived a fierce challenge for the party's presidential nomination by Ronald Reagan. The Republican establishment at every level was furious, contending that Reagan's challenge had made it much less likely that President Ford could be elected. Not even Reagan's champions imagined that his failed...

Washington Expects Russia To Honor Its Obligations To Space Station Washington (AFP) Sept 26, 2002 Responding to reports that Russia would not be able to pay up its share of the International Space Station, Washington said Thursday it expects Moscow to "meet their commitments," an official said. "NASA has not received any indication from Roskiakosmos (the Russian space agency) that Russia will not be able to meet its commitment under the International Space Station agreements," NASA said in a brief statement. The Russian space agency had warned earlier in the day, however, it can no longer afford to meet...