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...week's end the contagion was largely contained. Defense Department officials were quick to point out that no data had been lost, no files destroyed, and none of the Government's most sensitive computer operations -- systems that do everything from gather intelligence to launch missiles -- had been compromised. But the event raised disturbing questions. "It shouldn't be so easy," says Lawrence Rogers, head of Princeton's Office of Computing and Information Technology. Harold Highland, editor of Computers & Security magazine, sees a useful lesson. "This attack is a wake-up call to all operators and users of computer networks...
WEEI Broadcasts Launch Homeless Benefit Drive...
...mujahedin will need all their reserves next spring, when the end of winter will signal the final push on Kabul. Massoud told TIME he intends to cut off major highways into the capital, then take on outlying garrisons. At the same time, he plans to launch a campaign of disruption inside Kabul in an effort to spark a popular uprising as food grows scarce. "We have put considerable effort into organizing the resistance inside the cities," he explains, "and we now have an extensive underground network." In the meantime, Jamiat and other resistance groups are keeping up the pressure...
Republicans have suggested that the Dukakis plan smacks of socialism. Ironically, it bears a striking resemblance to a plan put forward in February 1971 by a man seldom accused of being a liberal: Richard Nixon. The most equitable -- and therefore politically least feasible -- solution would be to launch a federal health-insurance program financed by premiums based on income. Do not look for any candidate running for office to suggest that...
George Bush's vectors fly upward, as if he were about to launch himself. His rangy walk would be a John Wayne saunter, except that he goes on his toes with a springy stride, with profile high and prowing the wind. It is his father's walk, the dark-suited, dignified swagger that one saw in the early 1950s when Prescott Bush of Connecticut crossed the Senate floor. On a dazzling day, the blue sky washed cloudless, George Bush performed such a swagger at the Columbus airport...