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...selling it for even less. Now, in the final shopping days before Christmas, the PCjr is undercutting the competing Apple He by about $200 and countering Apple's green-screen monitor with one that shows full color. Says Erik Rossing, a vice president of the Minneapolis-based Computer Depot chain: "The Junior has become the best value in the store...
...great Federal affair of brick and hand-hewn oak that majestically held a Pennsylvania knoll just west of Philadelphia. It was a very old house-any architecture major could tell that-for down beneath the basement was a chamber as dark as the grave. This had been a depot on the Underground Railroad, a hiding cellar for northbound slaves. The landholders, generation after generation, had given over their rolling soil and their Quaker time to corn and cows, and for a very long while there it would seem the clock stood still...
...While touring an Army depot in Corpus Christi, Texas, investigators found 63 cartons from the Kingsville Naval Air Station labeled 200 LBS. OF ELECTRONIC SCRAP. Inside the cartons were 300 brand-new electronic circuit boards still in the manufacturer's packaging. As scrap each circuit assembly would bring a few dollars, but investigators found that the Navy is buying them...
...basic rules of Persian Gulf warfare, every military action produces an equal reaction. Fortnight ago, Iraqi planes struck two tankers near the Iranian oil depot at Kharg Island. Last week jet fighters with Iranian markings attacked the Japanese-managed supertanker Primrose as it was carrying oil from the Saudi Arabian port of Ras Tanura. The 276,424-ton vessel suffered only minor damage, and no injuries were reported...
...Leonid Zamyatin replied evasively, "I have not seen that information, so I cannot tell you whether it is true or not." Western analysts suspect that careless handling might have triggered the blast. Located near a cluster of naval installations on the Kola Peninsula, Severomorsk serves as a major ammunition depot for the 148 surface ships, nearly 200 submarines, 425 warplanes and one aircraft carrier that are attached to the Soviet Union's northern fleet...