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...focus on space gives the U.S.'s beam-weapons effort a Star Wars flavor that critics say is too far out for present technology. Still, experts applaud Brown for recognizing the weapons' potential. In theory at least, lasers could destroy enemy missiles with beams that travel at or near the speed of light: in the time it takes an aircraft flying at twice the speed of sound to move slightly more than an eighth of an inch, a laser travels a mile...
...Applaud all you want," said Johnny Carson, flashing the monologue moue that has become a Tonight show trademark. "I'm stuck for three more years." Stuck? Well, yes, if $5 million a year or so is mucilage. The real sticking point in the latest contract battle between Carson's Carnac the Magnificent and Silverman the Munificent, however, was not money but exposure. Carson demanded less of it than his present 4½ hours a week. NBC President Fred Silverman insisted on more. Eventually they compromised. The Tonight show, as a result, will be cut from 90 minutes...
Many slum dwellers applaud the vigilantes, especially since the majority of victims have been suspected criminals. The police, for their part, attribute the many killings to gangland drug wars. Yet perhaps the most frightening theory is that the police themselves may be moonlighting as "protection teams" hired by fearful merchants to clean up their neighborhoods...
...stocks, bonds and other securities, the fund could prove even more profitable than expected, and future legislatures might increase the $50-a-year formula. Oil price increases could also continue to swell the fund. While most Americans complain bitterly every time OPEC members raise prices, Alaskans have reason to applaud. With the price of domestic oil now decontrolled, Alaskan crude can rise to the world level; thus the state's royalties will grow with each foreign price hike...
While the Chilean government may have prominent friends in key places, the Chilean people can also count on world support in their struggle to resist. I applaud the Harvard community's continued protest of Harberger's appointment and I urge the Crimson to continue its front-page coverage of developments in this story...