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...political jockeying over the proposal to close or scale back 72 military bases and installations. Cheney has appointed a task force to review the Pentagon's gold-plated strategic-weapons systems. But, notes Gordon Adams, respected director of the independent Defense Budget Project, "he did not even hint at slowing down any of them." These include the mobile MX/rail garrison missile project (budgeted for $2.8 billion), the B-2 Stealth bomber ($540 million apiece), and the Seawolf submarine ($3.5 billion apiece), not to mention the Strategic Defense Initiative (which the Administration wants to increase from $3.6 billion to $4.5 billion...
Arab capitals, aware of the implications of the new statistics, are warning of higher tension and instability in the Middle East. Some of them hint at Soviet-American collusion; most assume that Israeli hard-liners will count on immigrants to help tighten their grip on the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. President Saddam Hussein of Iraq called the arrivals "a catastrophe befalling the Arab world." The government-run Egyptian daily al-Ahram was equally impassioned. "This is a blatant invasion," one of the paper's columnists said, blaming "American and Soviet strategies" that...
Yesterday's statements were the first hint in more than a year that the30-member Board of Overseers--which generallyapproves the policies of Harvard's chief governingboard, the Corporation--would consider changingHarvard's stance on the $139 million it hasinvested in South Africa-related companies...
...search is more interesting than the man. While there is genuine mystery and suspense as to his origins, even a gullible reader may catch on to a colossal hint at the truth that appears roughly a third of the way through the text. No matter. This book is far more than a standard piece of genealogical sleuthing. Half its fascination lies in chapters that describe milieus rather than biographical detail. Frontier living in Tasmania when Reg was a boy, the realities of pickup vaudeville in the outback, the grim privations of war in Malta when he served there...
...makes no difference. Despite official repeal of the decree, the government appeared to have ended the crackdown in name only: soldiers who had switched into the uniforms of civilian police were cropping up all over town, and there was no sign that their orders to suppress any hint of new unrest had changed...