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Other requirements, according to Fletcher: "The computers must be able to operate in a nuclear environment and must be hardened to survive radiation and shock. To keep crucial command, control and communications capabilities out of the fray, some of the computers would be placed in high orbit halfway to the moon." Humans would make the key strategic decisions in advance, determining under what conditions the missile defense would start firing, and devise a computer system that could translate those decisions into a program. In the end the defensive response would be out of human hands: it would be activated...
...version of "the South will rise again," Justice William Rehnquist, author of the 1976 decision, last week wrote tersely, "I do not think it incumbent on those of us in dissent to spell out further the fine points of a principle that will, I am confident, in time again command the support of a majority of this court...
Once he is ready to launch the final takeover battle, Pickens sets up a command post at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria or Helmsley Palace hotels. From there, he directs the action like a general, keeping in round-the-clock touch with allies and moneymen across the country. "He's incredibly well plugged in," says a Wall Street financier. "One of his great strengths is that he has more sources than anyone." Notes an investment banker: "He's an absolutely brilliant poker player, though there's a little chess in his game...
...last week long on pricey players, short on revenues and looking down the barrel of its own decision to take on the towering National Football League with a switch to a fall schedule in 1986. Even so, new U.S.F.L. Commissioner Harry Usher, fresh from his triumphs as second-in-command of last summer's Olympics, insists that "the state of the league has never been more positive than it is now." Looking back, he may be right...
Last sping, Citystep's first production at Sanders Theatre played to the largest single Harvard audience ever, followed by a sell-out command performance at the ART. The company's expansion from a dance company giving demonstration sessions at area schools to a full-time teaching program was encouraged in particular by its reception from several hundred Cambridge schoolchildren who were invited to the performances. "There was such positive reinforcement from the teachers and administration that I thought I'd stay on and choreograph on a serious level with undergraduates, says Peck...