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This decisive test is the third in a planned series of 19 for the Pentagon's projected National Missile Defense system. While Pentagon officers insist there will be future chances to halt its construction, a success this week could make that politically all but impossible. Congress is chafing to fund the system (see following story) and was heartened by the first test, in which an interceptor pulverized a fake warhead last October. In a second test in January, however, the interceptor missed its target by 241 ft. when a cooling line clogged and shut down its heat-seeking sensors...
...anti-Castro exile leadership had seized on the arrival of the shipwrecked boy last Thanksgiving as a godsend in their campaign to halt the slide in Washington toward relaxing the embargo. But campaigning to keep a child separated from his sole surviving parent may have been a fatal miscalculation for a political leadership whose power and relevance are derived less from its ability to mobilize its own base than from its ability to wield influence in Washington. While the ferocity of protest in Miami initially paralyzed the Clinton administration - and prompted Vice President Gore to break ranks over the government...
TIME So is Silicon Valley going to grind to a halt? Do you fear for the future of Intel...
...good times came to a crashing halt as Harvard would win just one more game in 1999, a 5-1 victory over Union on Dec. 4. A loss to Brown on Nov. 27 marked the Bears' first victory of the year...
...think things are at a difficult point because of the inability of the government to make decisions," he says. "The city can't grind to a halt, the University can't grind to a halt. There are things the University has to do--renew its physical plant and invest in itself...