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...commando raid might not be possible even if Bush ordered one. The U.S. still lacks special units trained for antiterrorist warfare. Though Congress has mandated the establishment of a Special Operations Forces Command, the separate services refuse to cooperate -- the Navy, for instance, will not assign SEAL units to the force -- and Congress has not funded equipment like new MC-130 Combat Talon attack aircraft needed to drop commandos in enemy territory...
...Government last April that Japan was reneging on part of a 1985 agreement to open up its telecommunications market. After reviewing the accord, Hills determined that the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was requiring stricter licensing procedures for foreign companies than for domestic competitors and would not assign any radio frequencies for Motorola- produced equipment in the Tokyo area. Hills declared that if the ministry did not change its position by July 10, she would slap punitive duties on a range of Japanese products. After ten days of talks, the two sides hammered out an agreement that eases...
...best argument in favor of the foundation's suggestions is that many of them have already been tried successfully: according to one study, 63% of middle schools provide health instruction, 40% assign adult advisers to students, 33% use team teaching, and 28% offer sex education. Breaking up large, impersonal schools into smaller units is also starting to gain acceptance. "It's a lot more work, but it's very stimulating," says Elizabeth Ophals, a social-studies teacher at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in New York City, where houses and team teaching were adopted last year...
...family placed a high priority on education,according to Watson. But the school authorities inBrooklyn didn't assign an equally high value toWatson's education, he says. Classified aslearning disabled in elementary school for noparticular reason, Watson continued his career inthe public schools during the height of the BlackPower movement and the urban riots of the late1960s...
...Soviet Union is just a piece of a new picture. Cleared to participate in the next Olympics, the National Basketball Association plans to contribute one team to a Milan tournament in October and assign two others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing...