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...television to all Sikhs to end their agitation. She outlined a framework for a settlement. "Let us sit around the table and find a solution," she pleaded. She had already agreed to most of the Sikh demands for religious autonomy and was willing to amend the constitution to distinguish Sikhs from Hindus. But Mrs. Gandhi felt that if she gave in to the Sikh demand for political autonomy, she would risk a Hindu backlash...
...close-knit HRDC community, observers and friends agree emphatically on the main difference between the "Paul aesthetic" and the "Bill aesthetic," though they have different ways of putting it into words. Inevitably, there are partisans, as well as a fair number of people who are quite sure they could distinguish a Rauch or a Warner production if they were put down in front of it in the middle of the Gobi Desert...
...research with pigeons, Herrnstein ponders such questions as: What does a simpleminded animal, like a pigeon possess to distinguish between a tree and a person that a complicated machine, like a computer, does not? What secret of classification is mother nature hiding and, if found, could we apply that discovery to create computers that could detect the difference between addresses in a post office...
Before an electronic brain could be perfected, it would need a capacity to distinguish between the most minute nuances of languages and psychology. A common example: to translate the phrase, "Mary had a little lamb," a computer must distinguish between twenty-eight meanings such as "Mary owned the lamb," "Mary ate the lamb," "Mary gave birth to a lamb," or "Mary engaged in sexual activity with a little lamb." Because no researcher has yet solved this problem society-at least for a time-is till bafe from an electronic "Big Brother...
...Administration's repeated assurances that its prime aim in backing the contras is to stop the flow of Communist weapons into Nicaragua and from there into El Salvador. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, explaining his vote last week for the antimining resolution: "We know that mines cannot distinguish between commercial vessels and those laden with Soviet and Cuban weapons ... With the destruction of each economic target in Nicaragua or in its harbors, our policy and its rationale become more tortured and tenuous...