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...landing. But airline pilots, partly out of pride and the certainty of a follow-up investigation, are often reluctant to take that step. "Complacency in the cockpit, failure to recognize and deal with hazards, is the most dangerous threat to air safety," says Jerome Lederer, an internationally known expert on the subject...
...Pentagon planners sensibly insist that initial U.S. troop and weapons cuts be reversible, so that American forces could return quickly in the unlikely event of a hostile Soviet move. "We need at least another year to determine whether the Soviet conventional restructuring is irreversible," argues James Blackwell, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. This can be accomplished by having the Navy buy fast sea-lift ships that could transport U.S.-based soldiers to Europe in a crisis. The Air Force, similarly, should keep a powerful force of attack aircraft that could leap overseas...
Fresh from his easy win over the world's best computer chess program Friday, Soviet chess expert Anatoly Karpov simultaneously took on 43 opponents Saturday at Memorial Hall, losing to one of them and drawing...
...didn't know who white was, I'd say black was playing better than white," said International Master and computer chess expert Michael Valvo, while discussing an early position in the match. Karpov played white, Deep Thought black...
Bush "considers himself the preeminent China expert in Washington because of the President's term as United States ambassador to Beijing in the 1970's," Kusnan said. "The problem with Bush is that he is playing a global game using 1970s rules. He's still trying to play the China card even though the changes in Eastern Europe have radically altered the structure of international relations...