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...into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...
Harvard English professors are often asked to serve on juries for fellowships and grants. They are advisors to the Harvard University Press and to other departments. Several have joint appointments. Some head other entire departments...
Apple's CD-ROM joint venture with Toshiba is focused through Kaleida, a subsidiary at work creating an operating system that will make the disks playable on a variety of computers. The CD-ROM can hold digitized text, still images and even video as well as audio. Its main appeal is that it can accommodate data equivalent to that carried by 1,000 regular computer disks or about 250,000 pages of text. At this point, fewer than 5% of personal computers are equipped with CD-ROM players because no standard exists: a CD- ROM for Apple, for example, does...
...President Nguyen Van Thieu. "We will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam," read one sent in January 1973, and that helped persuade Thieu to sign the peace accord. But Kissinger and Nixon kept these letters secret from Congress -- and even from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As it turned out, Congress was unwilling to authorize force either to press the MIA issue or to save the Thieu government. When the secret letters became public two years later, an uproar ensued that further undermined Kissinger's credibility...
...linked to standard PCs or run off-the-shelf software. Some large vendors have already made the investment to switch to "open" systems. Knight-Ridder has developed a PC-based service using Microsoft's popular Windows program. Reuters is teaming up with PC-maker Intel. And EJV Partners, the joint venture of six Wall Street firms, is building a system designed to run on personal computers. But Bloomberg stubbornly rejects this approach. He fears that he would lose his unique edge if he abandoned the Bloomberg. However, says Robert Russel, senior vice president of marketing at Reuters, "unless Bloomberg opens...