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...Soviets tested a pair of modified SS-18s tipped with dummy warheads; one missile landed 600 miles northwest of Hawaii, while another, aimed 360 miles southwest of the islands, apparently misfired. The Pentagon claimed the firings were the closest Soviet missiles had come to American soil. Said Senator Malcolm Wallop, Republican of Wyoming: "The Soviets were practicing an attack on America." The Pentagon later acknowledged that a Soviet naval vessel aimed a laser beam at two American surveillance aircraft in the area, apparently to disrupt U.S. monitoring efforts. One pilot reportedly suffered temporary eye damage...
...QUESTION for women of career vs. family has been hashed and rehashed enough to deforest the entire Pacific Northwest. Now Hollywood has thrown in its two cents with Baby Boom, ostensibly a social satire that turns serious every once in a while in order to shed some light on this question. Unfortunately, Baby Boom is neither illuminating nor terribly funny...
Colino found in Intelsat a loosely monitored, trusting organization. He apparently spotted an opportunity in the construction of Intelsat's ostentatious glass-and-steel headquarters building in northwest Washington. Only one-third of the 600,000-sq.-ft. edifice was being built when Colino took office in January 1984. That spring he suggested to Intelsat's 28-member board of governors that the last two phases of the building's construction be consolidated into one. Then, according to court papers, Colino connived with William P. Lipscomb Co., an Arlington, Va., construction firm, promising to award it the new contract...
...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
Right now Williams has his eye on Ronald Reagan's Acer saccharum, a lush 25-ft. sugar maple that sits right out by the northwest drive so all the visitors can see it when it blazes red and yellow in the fall. Naturally it will perform on schedule. It was planted by an actor...