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...turn, Israel has increased its own vigilance. Last week the country dramatized its determination to maintain a military and technological edge by launching Ofek-2, a satellite intended to spy on its immediate neighbors. The lift-off proved that Israel has missiles capable of carrying a warhead 1,500 miles, well within range of Baghdad. Since last July, Israel and the U.S. have been working on a ground-based missile that can fly nearly two miles a second, the speed required to intercept a tactical ballistic missile at high altitude. The program, called ARROW, is 80% funded by Washington. Israel...
Interestingly, ASNE's respondents thought their papers were now doing a good job on AIDS coverage. Says Leroy Aarons, an acknowledged gay who is senior vice president for news of the Oakland Tribune and director of ASNE's survey: "AIDS served to lift the curtain on a previously taboo area of our society." It also underlines the problem of intelligently covering other taboos or invisible subjects -- ranging from domestic violence to inner-city addiction -- particularly when they are veiled because journalists and readers would rather not see them...
...plans also call for modifying Sanders Theater to add a dressing room, rehearsal space, a storage room for instruments and a piano lift...
...remote art bunker outside Osaka, Bogota or Geneva. Even the museum's director, Anne Hawley, suggested that the robbers had been following a "hit list" given them by a mastermind collector. But it seems unlikely. Apart from a Greek plutocrat who tried, and failed, to commission some heavies to lift a Raphael from a museum in Budapest in 1983, no trace of this glamorous fiction has ever been found in real life. This was more like the Gang That Couldn't See Straight -- which soothes no anxieties about the fate of the heisted artworks...
...Western failures have boosted the competitive position of China and the Soviet Union, which have state-supported space programs. Moscow has sought for years to launch a U.S. satellite aboard a giant Proton rocket. China plans to use one of its Long March missiles next month to lift an AsiaSat communications satellite in a joint venture with Hong Kong. China charges only about half the $100 million that Western firms get for a launch...