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...powerful influence on De Chirico, and on Surrealism generally.) Nowhere is this more piercing than in the large study for the landscape of La Grande Jatte, without its 50 or so people, its monkey and two dogs. The curtain has risen on this green paradise, and the cast will filter on, one at a time, throughout the subsequent studies -- the St.-Cyr cadet, the lady with the monkey but without her attendant gentleman...
These tales filter back to the DEA. Possibly, Don Chepe wants it that way. "He's toying with us," says William Mockler Jr., chief of the New York task force investigating the Cali cartel. He and Kenneth Robinson, a retired New York City policeman who is now a DEA intelligence analyst, have been a step or two behind Santacruz since 1978, when they found out that he was building an air fleet and setting up businesses along the East Coast. Thanks to their efforts, Santacruz was indicted for drug-trafficking conspiracy in 1980, but he fled the country...
...promote use of an expanded version of its General Aptitude Test Battery as a basis for referring job applicants to private employers. But civil rights activists were leery. Minorities score lower in general on the tests than whites; exams have served in the past as a ruse to filter out black or brown applicants. So race norming was added as a way to make the results "color-blind." Eventually, 35 states adopted the Labor Department program in some measure. Until recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encouraged firms in some cases to shade scores for the benefit of minorities. Variations...
...weapons are a far greater threat than chemical agents. Iraq is thought to have a limited capability to attack with biological agents, which pound for pound are deadlier than any other weapon, except for nuclear bombs. U.S. officials maintain that the masks handed out to the troops will also filter out most airborne germs. Yet there is no easy way to know immediately when such elements are present. All front-line combat troops have been inoculated against anthrax, which is considered Iraq's most likely germ choice, but not against many other potential diseases like tularemia and plague...
There may be other bombshells. Details of Iraq's purchases of restricted military electronic equipment from the West are only beginning to filter out. The inventory is believed to include sensors and advanced radar modifications, night-vision apparatus and devices designed to counter the West's own electronic measures. Saddam's warning of a "surprise" for the coalition may refer to this sensitive area of technology...