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...send AWACS to Pakistan, with some effect. One U.S. official says the Reagan Administration has decided to hand over the planes only if their use is limited to the Afghan border region. Islamabad is unlikely to go along with such a requirement. The outcome of the AWACS debate may depend on who blinks first. Washington is reluctant to jeopardize its ability to help the mujahedin, and Pakistan does not wish to risk a serious breach with the U.S., its main supplier of arms and vital economic...
...spectacle of wasted crops spread jitters across the rest of the Farmbelt, especially in northern states that depend on migrants from the Southwest. In the Fruit Ridge region of Michigan, growers are scrambling to find cherry pickers, but the real worry is about the peach crop in July and apple harvest in August through October. Other worker shortages could reach from the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the poultry farms of Texas...
Readers of Buckley's previous boating books should not be surprised that the author is still passionate about navigation. His ideological and intellectual excursions depend, after all, on precise readings and fixed positions. Airborne contains lucid and regaling explanations of piloting basics. In this third leg of what one hopes will become a longer publishing venture, Buckley clarifies the technical murk surrounding such navigational gadgetry as Loran- C, the satellite-assisted Global Positioning System and WhatStar, a computer program conceived by Buckley and Literary Critic Hugh Kenner. WhatNext...
...imitative bad manners -- than any other female of her day. She remains one of the best-known brand names in literature, although nowadays hardly anyone reads her short stories, her flop plays, her mostly slight and bitchy journalism or more than a handful of her poems, most of which depend on the confectionery trick of concealing a goo of sentimental self-pity beneath a brittle crust...
...National Academy of Sciences has warnedin recent reports that American science and theAmerican economy crucially depend on opennessand communication. "If we continue to developpolicies along their [the Soviets'] lines, theywon't need to steal our information anymore," Parksays