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...products ranging from the first pocket-size FM radio and the first portable videotape recorder to tummy TVs and the Walkman tape player. Last week Sony Chairman Akio Morita, 60, showed off his latest marvel: the Mavica, a still camera that looks and feels like a conventional 35-mm camera but takes color pictures without film. Morita grandly called the camera the greatest innovation in photography since Louis Daguerre invented the silvered copper plate print...
Railway lines, power stations and shopping centers have been the most frequent targets for the ANC, though damage in almost all cases so far has been slight and human injuries have been minor. Two weeks ago, ANC militants fired four 122-mm artillery rockets into the Voortrekkerhoogte military base outside Pretoria: three failed to explode and only one person was hurt. But the attacks have proved 1) that the ANC insurgents, however badly trained they may be on the whole, are well armed and can handle heavy weapons and explosives, and 2) that they do not shy away from inflicting...
...gold or just a teary gleam in the eyes of TV's founding fathers? Until now, it was impossible to say. Videotape was unknown back then, and since all the shows were done live, even the most famous were seen once, and once only. A few kinescopes-16-mm films shot directly off the TV screen-do exist, however, and from now through March, eight of them will be shown on more than 150 PBS stations. For the first time we have an answer: there really was a Golden...
...Opposition Leader Shimon Peres flatly called it "a mistake." On the other hand, the Israeli raids on Lebanon called attention to the enormous arms buildup of the P.L.O. over the past six months. The new arms, paid for mainly by Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, include Soviet-made 122-mm howitzers and 130-mm field guns. These weapons have not yet turned the Palestinians into a serious threat to the Israeli armed forces, but they have made it difficult for the Israelis to knock out P.L.O. concentrations with anything short of a full-scale ground attack...
...much left of it. Carried mostly by officers, aviators and military police the weapon has proved so durable that the Army still draws upon its cache of 1.9 million .45s bought by the end of World War II. The Pentagon has decided to switch to the 9-mm because it will use ammunition standard among other NATO countries, will be lighter (roughly 2½ lbs.) than the .45 and pack nearly the same wallop. One other attraction cited by the Pentagon: the 9-mm will be "easier for women to deal with." The .45, which cost $25 in 1911, sold...