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...explosions were detonated "on the outside of the hull in the area of the engine room." New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange called the bombing a "major criminal act." Lange, who has banned port calls by nuclear-armed or -powered ships, said he would consider sending a New Zealand naval vessel to lead the Mururoa protest. The Rainbow Warrior was one of four ships used by Greenpeace, an international environmentalist group. "Our actions are all peaceful," said Bryn Jones, chairman of the organization's British branch. "We have not in the past provoked this kind of response...
That difficulty has been spotlighted by the resignation of Computer Scientist David Parnas from a nine-member Star Wars advisory panel on computing. Parnas, an American professor at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, had worked with the Naval Research Laboratory since 1972, helping to develop battle computer programs for the Navy. But after attending the first meeting of his Star Wars committee in June and studying the problems involved, he turned in a letter of resignation. "Because of the extreme demands on the system and our inability to test it, we will never be able to believe, with...
...contain tens of thousands of errors. Some of these could be eliminated by testing component parts one at a time. But when these components are finally put together, new bugs inevitably turn up. For example, in the first field trial of Aegis, a computerized system designed to defend naval ships from air attack, the weapon failed to stop six of 16 targets. Aegis' faulty software was eventually debugged, but for the Star Wars program, there may be no second chance...
Shortly after noon on Saturday, July 20, President Ronald Reagan walked out of Bethesda Naval Hospital and into a changed world. With a golden career and a life of good health behind him, the 74-year-old President now faced the full impact of his mortality and a future marked by constant vigilance against the recurrence of his cancer. For the first time in its history, the U.S. faced the prospect of a sitting President who, no matter how dramatic his recovery, would be followed by the shadow of a major disease for the rest of his presidency...
...have been a bit raspy, his gestures a tad stiff and tentative, but as he greeted Chinese President Li Xiannian on the sun-drenched South Lawn last week, Ronald Reagan inspired pride rather than pity. The welcoming ceremony was the President's first formal event since leaving Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he underwent major surgery for cancer. Standing at attention beside his guest while a Marine band played the American and Chinese national anthems, the 74-year-old Reagan gave credence to the reports of his splendid recuperation. Nonetheless, the ceremony was shortened to 15 minutes so that Reagan...