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...which arranges for Americans to travel to Nicaragua, were ransacked recently for the fourth time. "We think that the Government is behind these acts," said Garrett D. Brown, NICA's associate director, though he had no solid proof to support his theory. The FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service insist they had nothing to do with the burglaries. "We are not involved in any illegal break- ins," said FBI Spokesman Bill Carter. He added, "If we did it, they wouldn't know it. We're better than that...
NASA scientists insist that given the briefness and the danger of the flybys, Astro-1 could actually end up gleaning more information about Halley's than the probes do. "Our mission may not be as dramatic," says Knox Long, a Johns Hopkins University scientist on the Astro project, "but we're getting the most bang for the buck...
...problem which characterizes both North and South America, according to Fuentes, is that neither has discovered the meaning of tragedy. And to those who insist that Latin American literature is full of tragedy, Fuentes replies: "Not tragedy, but crime... Tragedy means to recognize that both we and our opponent are right. We do not have that which Prometheus, Oedipus and Antigone had because we have been incapable of giving our opponent the same worth which we give ourselves...
...most players insist this isn't a serious problem, so Itech needn't worry about designing an air conditioning system...
Cable executives insist that their series are different from network fare, in many cases more daring in language and subject matter. Usually that simply means a gratuitous glimpse of skin here, an expletive undeleted there. Brothers' treatment of homosexuality, for example, is a touch more explicit than ABC or CBS might allow. Yet in most ways the show is indistinguishable from a typical Norman Lear sitcom of the mid-1970s...