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...NIGHT IN A CHEAP HOTEL USUALLY REQUIRES payment in advance. But relations between major defense contractors and the Air Force are thought to be a cut above that. Not always, according to a report from the acting Pentagon inspector general, which recommends disciplinary measures against a cluster of Air Force generals and civilian procurement specialists. The report accuses several Pentagon officials of advancing McDonnell Douglas Corp. $500 million in 1990 to see the aerospace giant through troubles associated with the C-17 military transport plane. The report urges disciplinary action for three generals and two civilians alleged to be involved...
...cease-fire" as a gesture of "good intentions" toward incoming U.S. President Bill Clinton. It claimed to be sticking to it even after U.S. jets, fired on while flying through the northern exclusion zone both Thursday and Friday, attacked radar sites and missile emplacements with HARM missiles and cluster bombs. Saddam's intentions had become more menacing by Saturday night, when Iraqi antiaircraft batteries fired on three U.S. fighters patrolling in the southern no-fly zone. The pilots returned fire and made it safely back to the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk...
Dark matter was first postulated in the 1930s by the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky, who observed that galaxies in the far-off Coma cluster were whirling around one another faster than the laws of physics would allow. They should by rights have been flung out into deep space, unless, as Zwicky contended, the gravity from some massive, invisible substance was holding them in. For decades the idea was rejected as too bizarre. "It smacked of angels dancing on the head of a pin," recalls theoretical physcist Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz...
Shorter range, the transition continued to proceed cautiously. Clinton designated heads of nine "cluster groups" that will look into the operations of government departments; the most widely recognizable name was that of former astronaut Sally Ride. He also began what one aide called "job interviews" with a few Democrats -- former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, Senators Tim Wirth and Lloyd Bentsen among them -- who have been mentioned for Cabinet-level appointments...
Franklin D. Raines '71, who is the vice chair of the Federal National Mortgage Association and a former lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, will head the "cluster" examining potential appointments in the areas of economics and international trade...