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With the warming of U.S.-Soviet relations, Navy critics contend, the Avenger had lost the urgency of its main mission. Yet its demise was prompted mainly by a series of scandalous failures that were typical of the way the military acquires most of its big-ticket weapons systems. When the A-12 contract was let in 1988, the McDonnell Douglas-General Dynamics team bid $1 billion less than its competitor, a Grumman-Northrop consortium. Since the bid was unrealistically low, the Avenger contractors quickly ran into excessive costs and slipped behind schedule...
...scrolls. He then faced growing scholarly anger because, 43 years after the first documents were discovered, one-fifth or more of the scrolls are still unpublished and unavailable to academe. His five colleagues on the scrolls team cited the delays as a reason to remove Strugnell, but other experts contend that he has worked to end the logjam...
Republican organizers say the one person holding back the choice of San Diego % as the site of the party's 1992 convention is -- George Bush. The transplanted Texan is known to want to hold his coronation in Houston. But G.O.P. advisers contend that having the event in California could boost Bush's chances for carrying the state, which he won by a margin of just 3.5% in 1988. Thanks to its population boom, the Golden State will provide 54 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency...
...possibility of widespread HIV testing, bruited about for months, has stirred fierce opposition. The American Public Health Association, civil liberties groups and unions representing medical workers contend that a policy change at this time is misguided and scientifically unjustified. "The CDC is not focusing on public health," declares Ruth Finkelstein of the AIDS Action Council, a watchdog group. "It is focusing on public relations. The issue is being framed as one in which doctors are being irresponsible. The fact is that the public health risk from infected medical professionals is infinitesimal...
...thwart a former KGB chief who is plotting to assassinate a popular Soviet reformer. Then, in a hot-off-the- presses story line, he and his colleagues race to stop a renegade Iraqi colonel from launching a biological weapon against Israel. There are folks back at the agency to contend with as well: a new generation of computer jocks who disdain the old-timers, and a slimy acting director who longs for a new Stalin in the Soviet Union to "give us our enemy back...