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...firings were the closest Soviet missiles had come to American soil. Said Senator Malcolm Wallop, Republican of Wyoming: "The Soviets were practicing an attack on America." The Pentagon later acknowledged that a Soviet naval vessel aimed a laser beam at two American surveillance aircraft in the area, apparently to disrupt U.S. monitoring efforts. One pilot reportedly suffered temporary eye damage...
...hears arguments in a press-censorship case involving a Missouri high school principal who ordered two pages removed from a student newspaper because of articles about pregnant teenagers and the effect of divorce on adolescents. The question is whether school officials may censor articles without demonstrating that they would disrupt school life or expose the school to lawsuits...
...Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, Bork tried to lay to rest fears that he would seek to overturn liberal court decisions. Said he: "A judge must give great respect to precedent." In his previous writings, he has said that the court should be careful about reversing decisions when that would disrupt large bodies of established laws and practices. The cases he usually cited involved decisions relating to interstate commerce, but last week he declared this view would apply to First Amendment cases as well. Seeking to show that this professed fealty to precedence was insincere, Ted Kennedy produced a tape...
Efforts to contain Lyme disease are under way. In an attempt to disrupt the tick's life cycle, Harvard researchers have developed cardboard tubes containing insecticide-treated cotton that attract nesting mice and keep them bug-free. Meanwhile, work has begun on a vaccine and a urine test that may provide earlier diagnosis than the current blood test. Until a vaccine is available, however, the best protection is wearing long pants tucked into socks when walking in brushy areas -- or even in the backyard...
...South Koreans are convinced that, once completed, the dam will pose a major danger to Seoul. They fear that it will either collapse because of poor workmanship or, in a darker view, be deliberately burst by the Communists, perhaps as a prelude to invasion or in an attempt to disrupt the upcoming Olympics. In response, the South Koreans have begun construction of a countervailing "peace dam" that would trap any released waters and send them back north...