Word: errors
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...computer terminal to compose memos to his superiors at the National Security Council, he made a common assumption. He thought his electronic missives -- relaying confidential details of the ill-fated Iran-contra deal -- were more secure than messages sent by post or by telephone. The magnitude of that error now confronts him in bookstore windows around the country. For not only have hundreds of those potentially incriminating messages been recovered by federal investigators but they also are available to all, in published copies of the Tower commission report...
...Sidney Hook seems to have preserved all and pardoned none -- including himself. If any error occurred in the past, it was duly noted, to be summoned up on some appropriate occasion. Out of Step is the occasion. Hook is currently a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in Stanford, Calif. All three subjects are specialties of the man who believes that "the central problem of our time is . . . the defense and enrichment of a free and open society against totalitarianism...
FOOTNOTE: *The survey of 1,014 adults was taken by telephone Feb. 17-18. The potential sampling error is plus or minus...
...letter from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee in yesterday's edition of The Crimson contained a typographical error. A sentence in the third to last paragraph should have read, "Instead, the University appears to have acted according to a predetermined plan which left no scope for any legitimate and peaceful act of civil disobedience which would not have prevented the speech from continuing...
...there are peaceful uses of nuclear energy that should promote the unity of mankind. Permit me to say a few words on this subject. Participants in the forum have mentioned in their speeches the disaster at Chernobyl, an example of the tragic interaction of equipment failure and human error. Nevertheless, the aversion people rightly feel for military applications must not spill over to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Mankind cannot do without nuclear power. We must find a solution to the safety problem that will rule out the possibility of another Chernobyl resulting from human error, failure to follow...