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...addition, the SAM6 is equipped with a heat sensor that can guide it to the aircraft's hot jet exhaust pipe. Finally, in its beam-riding mode, the SAM6 can be directed by its operator, who keeps the aiming dot of an electronic gun sight on the attacking aircraft. That is all it takes to send the missile accurately along a radar beam to the target. To make matters even worse for the enemy, the frequency of the missile's radar systems can be changed quickly, making it difficult to jam or confuse them with electronic countermeasures...
Goldfein's comedy manages the odd trick of being broad and donnish at the same time. He does Hegel with a sauerbraten accent: "Veil, now, vot ve got here? Ve got, for shtarters, ve got Descartes. Him and his Cogito, ergo sum ... Dot's an insight?" Not every one of these brief sketches works. But the author does a fine turn on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and he perceives, in an epiphany whose correctness is apparent, that Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote not only The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, but also The Myth of Sisyphus...
Goldfein, a former teacher of history and economics, is also a highly gifted mimic, and this fact permits a discovery whose triviality cannot be exaggerated: all the great thinkers of history (except maybe Hegel, dot krautkopf) talk and think in exactly the same speech and prose patterns! A further discovery is even more exciting: These patterns are also those of Alan Goldfein! Naturally it is for philosophers to decide the implications of this. In the meantime, we are greatly in Goldfein's debt...
Cuba's illiteracy rate is the lowest of any country in Latin America, and new schools and hospitals dot the country. The rich businessmen and the suffering they brought have been banished from the island. The Cuban people have gained a sense of purpose, a growing feeling of dignity, and the rest of Latin America looks to the country as a beacon marking the path out of the swamp of underdevelopment and oppression caused by imperial exploitation...
Bujumbura, the seedy capital (pop. 75,000), where spacious villas dot rolling green hills overlooking the vast blue expanse of Lake Tanganyika, has become virtually a Tutsi town. The few Hutus left are keeping a low profile. "The Hutus will never stop grasping for power, and the Tutsis will fight to the last man to keep it." a Belgian businessman told me. "I honestly cannot see any end to the killing. I only thank God that they are leaving the whites out of it." Elsewhere, the Tutsis and Hutus seem to be living together without trouble-at least...