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...blew up next to a row of metal chairs. West German police found the mutilated remains of three victims, who were eventually identified as a Portuguese man and two Australian children. Another 42 were injured, including one American. Police had no clues to the identity or motive of the bomber...
...confidence? Hartman joined the show at its birth in 1975 and, as Today's Friedman admits, "changed the face of morning television." Hartman's abundant curiosity and sense of wonderment still serve him well after all these years; his narration of a flight he took in a B-1 bomber last year vividly captured the sights, sounds and fears. Joan Lunden, who has shared a homey set with Hartman since 1980, has sharpened what once were rather dull interviewing skills. Yet the duo rarely engage in the spontaneous banter of Gumpaul...
Others are less worried about the Pentagon's ability to cope. "The Commander in Chief thought it was all right," noted Robert Dole. Most major weapons systems, like the B-1B bomber, are too far into production to be cut significantly. "They have basically got the buildup already structured and will be able to carry on most of the existing programs," says Stephen Daggett of the Center for Defense Information, a liberal Washington group. Most likely to face elimination are those on the verge of making the transition from development to production. Among them: the Sergeant York battlefield air defense...
Like Sinclair Lewis, who employed the author as a secretary and driver during the summer of '37, Hersey had points to score. The Wall (1950) dramatized the life and death of the Warsaw ghetto. The War Lover (1959) examined the roots of violence through a self-hating American bomber pilot. The Child Buyer (1960) criticized trends in education, and The White Lotus (1965) took on racism in an allegory that made Caucasians the objects of discrimination...
What of President Reagan's campaign promise that the first private citizen in outer space would be a teacher? Garn retorts, with some logic, that he is not a private citizen. "I am a public official," he says. "I am concerned. I even flew the B-1 bomber years ago, to decide whether that was something I ought to vote for or not, and I've driven the M-1 tank for the same reason." * Despite the flak about Garn's flight, 69% of those polled in a recent Salt Lake City newspaper survey supported the mission. Such popularity must...