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...freighted with symbolic baggage. In such an uptight climate, cultural renegades are doing what they have always done: trying to shock, offend, liberate. Stern's gross-out radio act, like his book, is all about saying the unsayable -- at least, within the limits of what the FCC will allow a station to broadcast and still keep its license. Beavis and Butt-Head, with their geeky irresponsibility and maddening Neanderthal laugh, are adolescent ids running wild, doing everything parents tell you not to -- picking their noses, torturing pets, playing with matches. Political correctness, once the province of a small band...
National Security Decision Directives are top-secret orders dealing with sensitive problems that threaten America's safety. But last week Vice President George Bush openly discussed one directive, signed by President Reagan in April, that will allow the U.S. military to play a more active role in the nation's fight against drug trafficking. Bush, who headed the President's National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, said he was publicizing the order in an effort to make ''every American understand the very real link between drugs and terrorism.'' Bush charged that Nicaragua's Sandinista regime was engaged in the drug trade...
...Edwin Meese's Commission on Pornography mailed to 23 retailers last February saying that the panel had ''received testimony alleging that your company is involved in the sale or distribution of pornography.'' The letter also contained an ominous invitation: ''The Commission has determined that it would be appropriate to allow your company an opportunity to respond to the allegations prior to drafting its final report section on identified distributors.'' Failure to answer the charges within three weeks, said the commission, would ''be accepted as an indication of no objection.'' To many companies, the letter was a veiled threat of public...
...language was dry, understated, yet painfully clear. What caused the space shuttle Challenger to explode last Jan. 28, killing its seven passengers? ''Failure of the pressure seal in the aft-field joint of the right solid-rocket motor.'' Why was the shuttle allowed to fly if unsafe? ''Neither Thiokol nor NASA responded adequately to internal warnings about the faulty seal design . . . There was a serious flaw in the decision-making process.'' The commission appointed to investigate the Challenger accident interviewed more than 160 people, held hearings that generated 2,800 pages of transcripts, then summarized it all in an orderly...
...down, preferably with smart rocks. But little time remains once the RVs are spotted, which means a defense runs the risk of being overwhelmed. In addition, the Soviets could blind radar with nuclear bursts in the sky and skew targeting by outfitting their RVs with stubby wings that would allow them to maneuver and escape the defensive rockets. Like fast-burn missiles in boost phase and decoys in midcourse, stubby wings are just one of the available conventional methods the Soviets might use to counter complicated Star Wars technologies. Whatever obstacles SDI must overcome in developing sensors and weapons...