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...missile system was so unpromising "that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy." At the same time, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee subjected five Administration witnesses, including the President's science adviser, George Keyworth, and the newly designated director of the program, Lieut. General James Abrahamson, to withering skepticism. Among the doubters were moderates like John Glenn as well as liberals like Massachusetts Democrat Paul Tsongas...
DIED. Dennis Keogh, 44, career U.S. State Department official, and Lieut. Colonel Kenneth Crabtree, 45; in a terrorist bomb explosion at a gas station just outside Oshakati, Namibia. Both were members of a U.S. liaison team monitoring the cease-fire in Namibia. South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrillas were blamed by South African officials for the attack, but denied the charge...
Supporters of the space defense system were unfazed by the union's scathing report. Retired Army Lieut. General Daniel Graham called it the product of "those Charles River boys who say it can't be done." The Administration is continuing to press for an initial funding of $1.8 billion in next year's defense budget, currently before Congress. Over the next five years, it wants the U.S. to spend a total of $26 billion on the project...
...Lieut. Florence A. Starzynski...
...play-by-play artillery exchanges between rival Lebanese forces. Using sophisticated electronic equipment for pinpointing artillery targets, some passed the time making a sweepstakes of the hits and misses, as Lebanese shells exploded in the nearby mountains. Watching the Shi'ite residents of a Beirut suburb, Second Lieut. John La Torre remarked ruefully, "I guess they're just like other people, except that they've had a civil war going on for most of their lives...