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Whether the hazard be death or ennui, where will these "civilian volunteers" come from? There is only one sizable U.S. training school for electronic battlefield technicians, and that is the military. During the Viet Nam War, the Pentagon trained not only its own intelligence units but also CIA and National Security Agency technicians in the arts of electronic-combat surveillance, and some of them may be available. Reportedly the American technicians will also have to be well versed in the use of "sidearms," which, in the Sinai, usually mean Uzi submachine guns...
Doctorow, who teaches at Sarah Lawrence, is one of the most political of novelists. I would hazard that he is a socialist, a leftist anyway, and that he is troubled by the leaping, bursting, delicate hope this vision holds, and how hard it is to harbor this hope without it breaking or your breaking into cycnicism. He is concerned with more than survival, with survival not being enough, which is refreshing after more indulgent writers. His first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, is set in a grim prairie expanse in the west, a badland blowing as cold and vacant...
Although wind shear is invisible to the eye, the conditions that make it probable can be spotted by radar and detected by weather instruments. Any violent thunderstorm, of course, raises a possibility of such dangerous air currents. But the problem in combatting this hazard is that it is capricious, its intensity is unpredictable, and to close down airports every time the wind shear possibility remotely exists would seriously disrupt air travel. U.S. investigators have, in fact, cited wind shear as contributing to the probable cause of only one previous accident: the crash of an Iberia Airlines DC-10 at Boston...
...second battle of Gettysburg" is what AFL-CIO Executive George Taylor hyperbolically calls the U.S. Department of Labor hearings that start this week in Washington. At issue: regulation of the amount of noise in U.S. factories, a billion-dollar problem that another AFL-CIO official terms "the most ubiquitous hazard in the workplace...
...stuff?" Glikes says that Kearns has launched a "vicious whispering campaign," a "desperate and dispicable attempt to justify something that cannot be justified." Moral outrage is brimming in all Glikes's statements. With an established scholarly reputation as an editor and publisher that he is not willing to hazard for one intractable writer, Glikes is looking forward to his day in court, when the facts will out. He has a utilitarian's faith in the ultimate triumph of Facts--"facts," he says, "that can be nailed to the wall...