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...Americans," says one Israeli expert. "But he has no expertise in this type of action. His specialty is assassinations." While a caller to the U.S. embassy in Helsinki had warned that terrorists allied with Abu Nidal planned to sabotage a Frankfurt-to-New York Pan Am flight, Finnish authorities insist that the tipster was a habitual alarmist whose call was a mere coincidence. Said FBI director William Sessions last week: "The bureau believes that it was a hoax and not connected to Flight...
Though some of the questions dealt with difficult concepts or called for subjective judgments, the results showed that many high schools are failing to get even the basics across. Only 16 states insist that all students take an economics course to graduate...
...based on concerns that animal growth hormones might be hazardous to humans. Reagan Administration officials insist that there is no scientific support for the claim. But under pressure from consumer groups, Italy, West Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium have banned the additives, which prompted the E.C.'s import restriction. While the U.S. has stood firm on the issue, other meat exporters (New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina and Australia) have agreed to ship only hormone-free beef to Europe...
...many scientists have warned that cars and factories are spewing enough gases into the atmosphere to heat up the earth in a greenhouse effect that could eventually produce disastrous climate changes. But until recently, the prophets of global warming garnered about as much attention as the religious zealots who insist that Armageddon is near. When Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth held congressional hearings on the greenhouse effect in the fall of 1987, the topic generated no heat at all. "We had a very, very distinguished panel," Wirth recalled at the TIME Environment Conference, "and who was in the cavernous hearing room...
Boeing officials insist that they have tightened quality controls. Says Richard Albrecht, Boeing vice president for sales: "You can make mistakes when you try to send out a lot of jets." In response to the complaints, he adds, "we have done a lot more training of new people than we used...