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...After the smooth-talking Tariq Aziz threatened to shoot down U-2s Monday, Clinton opted for restraint by waiting to see if the U.N. Security Council would condemn Saddam. They did. Iraq responded with an angry expulsion of American inspectors that only brought the U.S. and U.N. closer together...
...been fussing over itemization, less solid citizens have been pillaging the IRS, having discovered that the agency can't catch them. The foundation of fraud detection is what professionals call "information matching"--reconciling all the information supplied by the taxpayer (including Social Security numbers) with the information on W-2s and 1099 (miscellaneous income) forms, not to mention investment income and bank transactions. The antiquated IRS computer system is apparently unable to do this in a timely way, or sometimes to do it at all. Fraud happens between those stovepipes. "The IRS does not have a modern customer-service capability...
...being specific enough. But that's not fair. The Republican candidate has been quite specific about both the programs he would enlarge and the ones he is not willing to touch to pay for his across-the-board 15% income-tax cut. To Californians he promised more B-2s, and in New Mexico he assured Energy Department workers that they would be spared the downsizing he has planned for that agency. Last week he was at it again, offering an expanded version of the G.I. Bill and promising that veterans' benefits will be spared...
...maybe not them. Kemp has the true believer's ability to sell. If he, rather than Dole, can be propelled to the forefront, maybe Clinton will expire instead. "But the No. 2s never get you much," Democratic patriarch Larry O'Brien once said, as he recalled the equally odd coupling of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in 1960. "They can help some, as Lyndon did in Texas, and that's why you choose someone you can't stand. But in the end, it's the guy on top who carries you." Or doesn...
...Army and Navy, meanwhile, were reconstituting mechanisms from the Nazis' V-1 guided missiles, which had wrought such tremendous damage on England in the waning months of the European war. The result was the JB-2 jet bomb, a low-altitude missile. The Army had requisitioned 1,000 JB-2s by the end of July 1945 as part of an eventual plan to hit Japan with up to 500 such missiles a day. The Navy hoped to do the same with its version, called the Loon. But by that time, more horrific technologies were ready to close...