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...reported a 300% jump in bogus papers. Recently, a group of young men discovered a maze of underground drainage culverts off the river and threaded their way through the dark, slimy reaches, emerging through manhole covers in downtown El Paso. A few were apparently running drugs, but others were intent on nothing more sinister than getting to gardening and handyman jobs on the American side...
...space shuttle. Then, in an interview last August with TIME, Gorbachev said that what he called fundamental research would not be covered by the ban. But Soviet officials subsequently explained that ''purposeful'' research on strategic defenses would still be forbidden. Since purpose would be a matter of declared intention, the American SDI would be outlawed, while the Soviets could continue testing huge high-energy lasers in Central Asia by claiming that they were for medical purposes. Even SDI skeptics like Sidney Drell believe that the U.S. should maintain a vigorous--and very purposeful--research program in strategic defense...
...held responsible for ''willful gross negligence'' in the tragedy. Replied Rogers: ''I'm not sure picking out any scapegoat and prosecuting would serve the national interest.'' At his press conference last week, the President agreed with Rogers. ''I don't believe that there was any deliberate or criminal intent in any way,'' said Reagan. Instead of searching for blame, the Administration and Congress face a greater task in answering the financial and policy questions posed by the commission's recommendations. The report urges that the shuttle's booster joints be entirely redesigned rather than just modified and that the rockets...
This war prevents us from tackling nearly every serious threat we face, from a resurgent al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to a hostile Iranian regime intent on possessing nuclear weapons to the spread of extremist ideology around the world...
...pled guilty in Cambridge District Court on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor and trespassing. He was sentenced to three years probation and 200 hours of community service...