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...Challenger Walter Mondale at the start of last week. Reagan indeed is treating the debate as a settled issue; his aides think he put to rest doubts about his age and competence with a wisecrack about Mondale's "youth and inexperience," and with that removed the last real barrier to his reelection. But Mondale nonetheless is hammering away at the theme that Reagan "cannot make a statement about a major issue without making a major mistake...
...tragically simple mistake." After weeks of discussion about possible failures of intelligence and other lapses leading up to the September bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, that was the conclusion of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week. Had a steel gate or some other barrier been installed to protect the approach to the building, the terrorist attack would probably not have been successful. The report adds that the relocation of the embassy headquarters from Muslim West Beirut to Christian East Beirut was progressing slowly and that the contractor hired to build a gate was preoccupied with other projects...
...House aide of Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious. "She is a historical celebrity," he says. "Whether they support her or not, they applaud the fact that one more barrier has been broken...
...protect migrating caribou, representatives of the Eskimos asked years ago that Hydro-Quebec build a barrier to divert the animals from the crossings where last week's drownings occurred. Now, with as many as 25,000 caribou still headed for the crossings, the Quebec government is hastily arranging for a mile-long a fence to be built in the area. Authorities are discussing the use of hired planes to generate a sufficient amount of noise to divert the migrating herd...
Softwar's authors play skillfully with state-of-the-art technology and the intricacies of computer software. In fact, there is no technical barrier to planting soft-bombs of the type the novel describes. "Not only is it thoroughly possible," says Charles Lecht, chairman of Lecht Sciences Inc., a New York City software company, "but I know of several instances where it has been done." Some U.S. software houses routinely encode secret time-delay functions in the logic of their largest commercial programs before sending them to prospective clients for preview. For example, such a program might...