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...nuclear triad, offsetting any vulnerability of the land-based ICBMs and the huge cost of ever more sophisticated bombers. Even William Webster, the CIA's cautious director, has said that the Soviet Union will be "unable, at least in this decade, to threaten U.S. subs in the open ocean." But no new Tridents are necessary for the remainder of the '90s, and the U.S. should immediately kill the rest of the procurement program. Saving: $1.4 billion...
Building a crustacean resort may be a worthwhile investment for seafood shippers, since lobster meat sells for as much as $40 a lb. in Japan and Taiwan. The large-scale tank, which could hold more than 1 million lbs. of live lobster, would contain seawater pumped from the ocean depths at a temperature of about 40 degrees...
...movement was winding down. Faced with the geometric, industrial forms of Pop and early minimalist art, paint-laden expressionism seemed exhausted and out of date. The second-generation artists moved on. Figures eventually vanished completely from Diebenkorn's work as he returned, in his Ocean Park series, to a refined and elegant abstraction...
Turner's news operation is also booming. CNN's coverage of the San Francisco earthquake drew its highest ratings ever, and the news network is assembling a 50-member investigative unit, headed by former ABC documentary chief Pamela Hill. With the completion of a satellite link over the Indian Ocean last summer, CNN International is seen in virtually every country on the globe, beamed to embassies in Europe, oil platforms in the North Sea and satellite dishes in the jungles of Peru. (Turner just received permission to set up a receiving dish for CNN in Viet Nam.) The network...
Still, say the Wellington Convention's opponents, some countries might be tempted anyway. Contends Barnes of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition: "Some nations are awash in cash and technology and have no domestic oil supply. I think Japan would be down there as soon as the continent was opened up." Opponents of drilling point out that the Antarctic Treaty has not always been scrupulously adhered to, especially when it comes to fishing limits and environmental protection. They argue that the Wellington Convention could also be skirted...