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...picked up by interception equipment outside a building -- in a van parked as far away as a mile, perhaps -- and then translated by another computer. In theory at least, words typed on a computer screen will appear almost simultaneously on a second screen in the van. Experts differ on how close this technique is to being usable. One figures that a skilled technician could put the basic interception equipment together from components that can be bought in any electronics store for about $300. Maybe so, counters Frank Mason, president of a Fairfield, Conn., company that makes countermeasure devices...
...ideas I expressed differ in many respects from the official Soviet position, but in many other respects they coincide with it. In any event these are my thoughts, my convictions. At the forum, two Soviet participants, Academician Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and Andrei Kokoshin, the deputy director of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, argued at length against some of my ideas. I take that as an indication of the importance and relevance of my words...
...their correspondingly contrasting views of such basic political concepts as equality or justice, the constrained and unconstrained not only differ from each other but differ so widely that they can hardly understand each other; they use the same words to mean completely different things. "Both visions believe in rights," Sowell says. "But rights as conceived in the unconstrained vision are virtually a negation of rights as conceived in the constrained vision." The constrained vision supports equality of opportunity, for example; the unconstrained judges equality not by opportunity but by results. Hence the emotional arguments over such issues as affirmative action...
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State Rep. David B. Cohen (D-Newton) said that the final budget will differ from Dukakis' proposal because the legislature will try to fill in some funding gaps that have not been adequately...