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Governor Michael S. Dukakis told state officials and members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation yesterday that Congress had performed a ``miracle'' in saving the $87.9 billion bill. The bill authorizes federal funding to widen and lower Boston's Central Artery and to dig a third harbor tunnel that would accommodate 40,000 cars daily...
Attempts by North to alter, and perhaps even delete, certain key files may have been foiled by another feature of the system. Like most computers, the NSC mainframe deletes electronic documents not by obliterating the data they contain, but by removing their file names from a central disk directory. The body of information remains intact indefinitely -- or until the space it occupies is written over with new data. Thus a resourceful programmer, armed with a description of a document that has been zapped, can often resurrect it from the disk. "We were living under a delusion," admitted one Administration official...
...there were plenty of questions left about PTL's new administration. For starters, Falwell is a Baptist Fundamentalist opposed to the Pentecostal experiences that are central to many PTL supporters. Since a majority of Falwell's new board members are also non-Pentecostal, one tongues-speaking preacher in South Carolina launched a crusade to get Falwell out of PTL, calling his appointment an "abomination...
Underscoring the urgency of the trade problem was a dramatic plunge in the U.S. dollar last week to a new postwar low of 147 yen, despite efforts by central bankers to stabilize the currency. Global money traders sent the dollar reeling because they expected that the currency might have to fall further if the U.S. is to slash its trade deficit. But sentiment is rising in Washington that protectionism is preferable to watching the dollar sink ever lower. Though the U.S. and Japan may not yet be engaged in a full-scale trade war, what used to be a heated...
...duly noted, to be summoned up on some appropriate occasion. Out of Step is the occasion. Hook is currently a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in Stanford, Calif. All three subjects are specialties of the man who believes that "the central problem of our time is . . . the defense and enrichment of a free and open society against totalitarianism...