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...around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, residents of century-old wooden houses ringing Noriega's sprawling P.D.F. headquarters, called the Comandancia, were startled by the roar of circling U.S. AC-130 combat Talon gunships and attack choppers, then the rumble of tanks in the streets. The tanks fired barrage after barrage at Noriega's official lair, and the sky was lit by antiaircraft tracers. The streets soon began to fill as terrified residents ran out of their flaming houses. An unknown number died in their homes; many were injured. Meanwhile, U.S. infantry units at Fort Amador opened fire with howitzers against...
There are even more ambitious plans in the works. In a project called Smart House, an offshoot of the National Association of Home Builders is developing a revolutionary wiring system that would supply not only AC power but also telephone, audio, video and high-speed data signals to every electrical outlet in the house. The wiring would enable homeowners to plug anything from a telephone to a waffle iron into one of the new outlets, and the socket would determine whether to deliver a dial tone or 120 volts...
...Totta, Penn AC Rowing Association...
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...serious reservation, namely, "There is a major point in the study about which Huntington is not clear: nowhere does he suggest how or when' elimination of the Vietcong forces and the retreat of the North Vietnamese regulars can be brought about to establish the preconditions which he describes for ac...