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Last week Agent Witkowski learned that Sjeklocha and two of his accomplices were returning to Orlando. They apparently planned to load the missiles on a 747 they had leased in Miami and take them to Iran. The FBI arrested Sjeklocha and one associate in an Orlando hotel room and nabbed four other alleged conspirators in California. Colonel Gillespie was arrested at his home. At week's end St. Clair was still at large. This bust, in the eighth smuggling case in the past year, came on the heels of the unrelated arrests last month of seven other smugglers for attempting...
...estimate, as many as 20% of homosexuals still practice the riskiest sexual behavior, which is the taking of multiple partners; some still patronize bathhouses for brief, anonymous encounters. "Quite honestly, I'm dismayed," says Miami's Dr. Allan J. Stein, a family physician whose patient load is 30% gay. "I've been trying for three years to talk to these people. I wonder: Am 'I doing my job right? Maybe I should have yelled." Says Jeremy Landau, project coordinator of a counseling center in San Francisco: "Let's face it. Some people just don't find safe sex exciting...
...addition to enduring military training, parade drill and required athletics, cadets carry a heavier than normal college course load that is long on engineering and math. Sleep, not surprisingly, is regarded as a luxury. To stay awake in class, cadets who begin dozing off in their seats are permitted to stand up by their desks. After lunch, entire classes are sometimes on their feet by the final bell...
...than 10 million cu. ft. per hour, from Lake Havasu on the California border southeast across the state to the expanding population centers of Phoenix and Tucson. A series of 14 pumping stations will force the water through a seven-mile tunnel in the Buckskin Mountains and lift the load 2,900 ft. over the course of a seven-day journey. The flow is monitored by a Modcomp JC 5000 computer situated in CAP headquarters near Phoenix, where controllers keep track of the system's operations on a 30-ft.-wide lighted map. In case of a rupture caused...
...China's hunger for resources has also exposed inadequacies in Australia's infrastructure and work practices. Exports could have been even higher. Long queues of ships kept waiting off Dalrymple Bay in Queensland to load coking coal for China symbolize the problems. In this year's iron ore negotiations, Chinese buyers settled for a 71.5% price increase (BHP Billiton, fresh from securing a 25-year supply contract, had sought to double its price via a rise in the freight rate it charges mills). Chinese officials say supply bottlenecks are to blame for the price hikes. Ambassador Fu has raised...