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BRAZIL. Like Pakistan, Brazil solemnly denied for years that it had an atom bomb program. The country's new civilian President, Fernando Collor de Mello, has admitted publicly that such a military effort was under way, and has ordered it closed down. He shoveled a symbolic two scoops of lime into a 1,050-ft. test-site shaft last month and ordered the site closed...
...Reductions in a variety of spending programs, military and civilian, along with increased fees for many services would make up the lion's share of deficit reduction. Pentagon spending would fall a total of $67 billion during the first three years, not counting the cost of the Persian Gulf operation. Farm supports would shrink by $13 billion, civil service pensions by $8 billion, guaranteed student loans by $2 billion, assistance to veterans by $2.7 billion. Jobless workers would have to wait two weeks before receiving unemployment compensation...
Walk This Way. To help soldiers find their way in the shifting sands, the Air Force is distributing thousands of high-tech locating devices. The civilian receivers (typical cost: $3,500, compared with $20,000 for the military version) read encrypted signals from 18 satellites and are usually accurate to within 350 ft. The Air Force has unscrambled those signals to allow the locators to give position readings accurate to within...
...found it necessary to announce that although she is the mother of an 18-year-old son, she is prepared to vote for war. Male candidates in some of the fall contests are finding their military records under scrutiny. No one expects them, as elected officials in a civilian government, to pick up a spear or a sling and fight. But they must state, at least, their willingness to have another human killed...
...running them through the system toward a meaningless diploma. Everybody has a right to education, but that right must be earned with effort and discipline. An alternative to the present chaos is to establish more and better trade schools and on-the-job training programs, as well as national civilian service...