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Technology may soon revolutionize U.S. attempts to patrol the flow of people, drugs and guns across its 1,900-mile border with Mexico. The sensors employed by the Border Patrol tend to be tripped off by every passing cow and coyote. Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque is developing a sophisticated new array of sensors that can transmit photographs of a trespasser to a central monitoring station, indicate direction and speed of movement, and also measure the presence of metal, a signal that the target is armed...
...invade Saudi Arabia, Iraqi tanks would have to head south from Kuwait along a 40-mile-wide stretch of open terrain that air force officers refer to as a "tank-shooting gallery." There is no natural cover, and tanks can be spotted readily by the tall, brown columns of dust they raise. These forces would be vulnerable to F-16s, Saudi and British Tornados, and possibly F-111s now on station in Turkey, carrying 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs and Maverick missiles. Armored, low-flying A-10 Thunderbolts would riddle the tanks with armor-piercing depleted-uranium slugs from...
...United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, is that 3 of every 5 black and Hispanic Americans live in areas with uncontrolled toxic-waste sites. Many of the most notorious dumping grounds are located in the South. Among the worst is "cancer alley," a 75-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, that is lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work of "fly dumpers," unlicensed truckers...
Bakr's anger turned to action on the evening of July 27, when he and more than 70 of his men stormed the Trinidad and Tobago TV studios, a mile from their mosque. At the same time, a powerful car bomb gutted the downtown police headquarters, and another group of gunmen seized the parliament building, taking Robinson and seven Cabinet ministers hostage. At 6:18 p.m., Bakr appeared on state-owned TV and announced that his "troops" had overthrown the government. Later he demanded that Robinson resign, new elections be held and an amnesty be granted to his rebel band...
...humiliation at Geneva. Saddam began to pull his troops back from the border last week, but he is not nearly through with his tiny neighbor. Among his demands are $2.4 billion in compensation for oil he claims Kuwait has pumped from Iraqi territory, along the countries' disputed 100-mile frontier. Saddam also wants Kuwait to forgive Iraq's war loans and lease or cede to Baghdad the strategic island of Bubiyan, a large sandbar in the Persian Gulf that blocks much of Iraq's paltry 18 miles of shoreline. No one believes Iraq is actually eager to invade Kuwait...