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...spoken support for Nazi Germany--paid an official visit to Israel in May 1976. The Economist reported that the South African head of state "signed a row of economic and military collaboration agreements that centered on South Africa's willingness to finance some of Israel's costlier military projects. Israel was to reciprocate by supplying weapon systems and training...
...continually growing power of the world's largest computer maker. Since August 1981, when it unveiled its first Personal Computer, or PC, IBM has claimed a pacesetting 28% of the market for machines costing between $1,000 and $5,000. The PC, intended mainly for office use, is costlier and more powerful than a home computer. Last year IBM sold 185,000 PCs. This year sales are expected to reach some 800,000. Runner-up Apple, once the leader in small machines, this year will have sales of about 600,000, and now has approximately 17% of the market...
...basic version with 64,000 characters of memory for $695, and an expanded model that includes a disc drive and twice as much memory for $1,295. Both versions will have far less overall capability than the PC itself, to keep them from biting deeply into the costlier product's sales. Perhaps the most striking feature of the new machine is a battery-operated keyboard that is not attached to the main part of the computer and will enable users to move about a room. Like an American Telephone & Telegraph terminal out last summer, the IBM home computer...
...million students. To reach what M.I.T.'s Papert calls the "threshold of seriousness"-one half hour of computer use a day per child-would require at least another 3 million machines. Estimated cost: $4.5 billion. And if sufficient equipment were made available, the schools would still face a costlier problem: teacher training. As a rule of thumb, each dollar spent on computers requires two more dollars to teach the teachers how to use them. "If you don't change the preparation of the teachers," says Tucker, "putting a lot of computers into our schools would be an appalling...
...explosion of a Greenwich Village Weather Underground bomb factory, will be represented by attorneys who have consulted with her father, Civil Liberties Lawyer Leonard Boudin. They, as well as Brown's lawyers, are expected to put up a vigorous, conventional defense. That trial could be even costlier than its predecessor. -By Michael S. Serrill...