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Arafat, 44, was born in Jerusalem, the son of a textile merchant. He was a member of one of the city's best-known clans, the Husseinis, and a distant relative of the Grand Mufti, the Moslem spiritual leader who led the first revolt against the British mandate. As a youth, Arafat was involved in the Arab-Israeli fighting of 1947-48 and became a refugee when his family fled to Gaza. While studying at the University of Cairo, Arafat became president of the local Palestinian Students Federation, and served in the Egyptian army during the 1956 war. Later...
...Doodie and A Chairy Tale. I've only seen one of these little nightmares, the one most commonly shown in this country, something called Pas de Deux. In fact, I must have seen it 300 times--it seems like everytime I settle back for some good light feature the distant toot of panpipes (Panpipes!) is heard and this "short" comes on for what seems like days. The content of this vicious bummer is two silouetted dancers--white tights moving slowly in the darkness. The man-figure tippy-toes over to the woman-figure, who keeps darting away and eluding...
AT56 broadcasts near an even more important frequency: the 11-cm. band, which has been specifically set aside by the International Telecommunications Union for the use of radio astronomers in their explorations of quasars, pulsars, distant galaxies and even the sun. Trouble is, the signals from these celestial sources are often so faint that they can be easily overwhelmed by signal spillover from the satellites' powerful radio transmissions, even when the complex craft are in a different part...
Hewish was cited for his discovery of pulsars, distant objects that give off regularly spaced bursts of radio waves. When he and his colleagues at Cambridge, using a radio telescope, first detected these pulses coming from a point in the sky, they suspected that they had picked up signals from intelligent beings in space-and promptly named the source LGM (for Little Green...
...remotely piloted vehicle (RPV as he dubs it) after a lone rifleman terrorized New Orleans last year from the roof of a motel. As Bailey explains it: "Criminals often seek a high vantage point. We have ground equipment to return fire, but so often you have to stay distant, which only extends the problem over a long period of time." With the RPV, Bailey plans to strike fast: drop a smoke bomb via remote control, blind the sniper, then send men in to grab...