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Rabin's go-ahead came with less than 24 hours remaining before the skyjackers' Sunday afternoon deadline. In addition to the three unmarked C-130 Hercules transports that carried the commandos to Entebbe, the operation involved two more C-130s loaded with fuel and reinforcements, two Boeing 707s (one used as a flying headquarters, the other as a hospital with 33 doctors and two surgical cabins), eight jet fighters as escorts, three tankers to refuel the fighters. Another C-130 fitted out as a radio transmission station kept the war room in Tel Aviv in touch with...
...into an anticancer research position if they issued a longer than three-month moratorium. Such talk of cancer clearly confuses the issue. Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, pointed out last week that if the urgency of cancer research is used to battle for an immediate go-ahead for recombinant DNA, then the issues are being misrepresented. The DNA research being done now is still basic, years away from practical application to cancer. Most scientists when pressed will admit to that. "If there is no great social need," Mendelsohn says, "why don't you take the time...
Full Security. TIME has learned that a typical operation began with a phone call to a high FBI official in Washington from a field supervisor who believed that clues to the whereabouts of a Weatherman fugitive might be found in a New York apartment. With Malone's go-ahead, the supervisor then wrote to one of the bureau's assistant directors in Washington for approval of an investigation employing an "unorthodox" or "unusual" technique and promising "full security." Attached to the request was a detailed explanation of what was meant by full security. Recalled an FBI official...
...says he carefully scrutinized the potential Iranian project before giving it the final go-ahead in 1974; he decided that, for various reasons--none of them ideological--the University's role in Iran would remain relatively circumscribed...
...request for new funds was linked to the President's loss to Reagan in Texas. To be sure, the Administration did decide to request the new funds on the morning of the day that Texans were balloting, but the decision was only a tentative one. The final go-ahead was given later...