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Western defense experts have been busy plugging the numbers in Gorbachev's various initiatives into their computerized war games, along with plenty of worst-case assumptions about the readiness of NATO. As a result, the bottom line of many such calculations has changed: the most often cited "sneak- attack scenario," which might before have yielded a Soviet victory, now leads to stalemate or even defeat...
...largely an engineering project," Cantor explains, intended to produce tools for faster, less expensive sequencing and to develop data bases and computer programs to scan the data. Not to be outdone, Japan has set up a consortium of four high- tech companies to establish an automated assembly line, complete with robots, that researchers hope will be capable of sequencing 100,000 base pairs a day within three years...
...toward meeting the basic Western criterion of trimming the Warsaw Pact's alarming and unmatched capacity to overrun Europe. Beyond that, the East bloc is prepared for a fundamental restructuring of the Continent's military balance that could sharply diminish the dangerous confrontation across Europe's political fault line...
...Last October, Eastern agreed to sell its profitable Northeast shuttle to Donald Trump for $365 million. Two days after the bankruptcy notice, Eastern Express, a Florida commuter airline owned by a Texas Air subsidiary, changed its name to Continental Express. Said J.B. Stokes, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "It was either make the stand now, while there's still something left to fight for, or do it six months later, when there's nothing left...
...heroic adman learns that his son was set up to preserve the effectiveness of a British-run mole in the I.R.A. Maas cuts a clear line between his sympathy for the Irish cause and his aversion to cold-blooded violence. There is ice, too, in the veins of Britain's counterterrorists, and hypocrisy in the Republic of Ireland, whose constitution includes all of the Emerald Isle in its national territory. As one insider puts it, "It was an open secret that given its domestic economic woes, the last thing the republic's leadership wanted was to take on the burden...