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After spending 14 months and $1.7 million investigating Edwin Meese, Independent Counsel James McKay last week offered the outgoing Attorney General one small consolation: he will not be prosecuted for violating any of the laws he had been entrusted to enforce. But far from the "vindication" that Meese had confidently predicted, McKay's 830-page report asserts that Ronald Reagan's longtime friend "willfully" filed a false tax return and "probably" violated conflict-of-interest laws. If Meese's legal troubles are behind him, his ethical behavior remains troubling...
...simulation has come a long way in the 60 years since Edwin Link, the father of the technology, first used organ bellows and a suspended box to approximate the motion of an airplane in flight. The box has evolved into an instrument-crammed capsule equipped with color video and stereo sound. The bellows has been replaced by electronically controlled hydraulic actuators. And the illusion of motion has become so powerful that it is indistinguishable from the real thing. Moreover, with a few minor changes, the same technology has been used to simulate everything from spaceships to submarines, from armored tanks...
...much of the information comes from the Defense Mapping Agency's library of the world's hills, valleys, rivers and towns. The processing power required to sort out that mass of data is staggering. Says Ronald Hendricks, technical director at Singer's Link Flight Simulation Division, a descendant of Edwin Link's original company: "When you look out the window, you see 18 billion bits of information. To make that scene unfold in real time, you have to compute a new image 60 times a second...
...speech, long in the making, was delayed until the release of the report by independent counsel James M. McKay on Attorney General Edwin Meese, which said Meese probably broke two tax laws and twice violated a criminal conflict-of-interest statute. McKay sought no charges...
Within a week after Edwin Meese announced his resignation as Attorney General, President Reagan moved to clean up the Justice Department by nominating a man of "proven integrity": former Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh. "The President wanted to raise the morale of the Justice Department," said a top White House aide, indirectly acknowledging the Meese mess. "He wanted to get it back in working order...