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...later, Washington is surprised again when India sets off two more test blasts--of much smaller, sub-kiloton yield--defiantly going ahead after the Administration has warned India to expect sanctions. The five tests reveal that India is designing a nuclear arsenal ranging from bomblets for blasting open a mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate cities. "The Indian leadership has gone berserk," says Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, as his country refuses to rule out detonating its own test nukes. No one is more dumbfounded by it all than Clinton when Berger enters the Oval Office...
...asteroid disaster movie ever gets made again after this summer's glut, here's a good opening scene: Panicked scientist testifies before congressional committee. A mountain-sized space rock, he warns, "could hit tomorrow and we wouldn't even know it was coming." Pan across committee members wearing concerned expressions. Cut to spinning newspapers with alarmist headlines. Melt to crowds of city dwellers gazing anxiously at the heavens...
Many rising juniors will spend next semester abroad in Spain, Argentina or Costa Rica. Others anticipate a year in Israel on an archaeological dig or in a classroom in the French Alps studying the intricacies of mountain flowers...
...Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Year 2000, set up in 1966 (rather rushing things). It was headed by the distinguished sociologist Daniel Bell and included 42 leading thinkers in fields ranging from science to mysticism. One of the commission's prominent members was that brilliant man-mountain Herman Kahn, who published The Year 2000 alongside the commission's report, Toward the Year...
...Three months ago the FBI believed his capture was imminent. Today his trail is as cold as a misty winter's morning in his native Smoky Mountains. Even the report that a truck registered to Rudolph had run a Colorado roadblock on April Fool's Day hasn't changed the feds' belief that Rudolph could just as easily be holed up under a rock (or in an empty holiday house) in the harsh mountain forests of Cherokee County, S.C., as he could be basking on a California beach. "Early on the FBI was very confident of capturing him," says TIME...