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...negotiated settlement remains only a distant possibility. In the meantime, the Reagan Administration remains committed to a strategy of countering Nicaraguan-sponsored insurgency with covert CIA support for anti-Sandinista rebels. That policy has drawn increasing attacks on Capitol Hill from legislators who believe the real aim is to destabilize and, if possible, overthrow the Nicaraguan regime. Led by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Boland, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, opponents in the House tried to block money for further covert aid to the rebels. A Senate bill, however, retained funding for continued covert support. After a compromise reached last week...
...business. As was Annie, come to think of it. Since the weather was uniformly fine and their mates on the hotel staff, being lower class and English, were politely eccentric, it is hard to see anything about the experience that was unpleasant. Even sitting through the rather dim and distant movie about that long-ago event (the film is set in 1962) can hardly be classed as a chore...
...installing its own $100 million system in Wall Street's financial district, which will take most of its communications out of the phone system. Even Salt Lake City's Mormon Church is getting into the act. Its private microwave link to Brigham Young University 45 miles distant in Provo, Utah, has replaced an AT&T system and is costing Mountain Bell $42,000 annually in lost revenues...
...Higher rates are in store for calls to distant points within states, along with sharp escalations in fees for local directory assistance, phone-line installation and pay telephones...
...heat will not impede observations, picked up infrared emissions from more than 200,000 sources. Most of these celestial pinpoints are much too cool to have been recorded by conventional telescopes. Many are extremely dim young stars, just beginning to be stoked by their nuclear fires. Others are distant galaxies, perhaps millions or even billions of light-years away...