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...stereo equipment in the home room, he has a library of 2,000 movies, including the entire John Wayne film canon and all episodes of the M*A*S*H TV series. The equipment in the seagoing media room includes a Javelin night-vision TV camera that scans the ocean or shoreline and projects what it sees on a wide screen amidships. Hollywood Writer-Director Melville Shavelson has so much electronic gear-including a computer hooked up to a U.P.I, news wire-that he has had to divide it between two rooms. Says he: "Theater for the home is already...
...year term in an election so controlled that every serious opposition candidate refused to run against him. But Clark Air Base, about 60 miles outside Manila, and the big naval facility at Subic Bay constitute the only permanent, secure U.S. military real estate between Japan and the Indian Ocean. As a U.S. official in Manila put it, Bush's visit "fits into the overall approach of the Reagan Administration that, if we're going to have allies, we're going to treat them as allies." To that end, Bush also noted before returning home that the Administration...
...Elsewhere, a man numbed by tragedy climbs out of himself by scaling an Alp. The purpose: to recapture his humanity "in a crucible of high drama." Humanity sinks in Letters from the "Samantha, " in which the captain of a British sailing vessel rescues a reddish ape from the Indian Ocean but throws it back when the sad, manlike creature disrupts ship's business. The captain insists that the ape had no meaning and his fate no moral significance. The reader should have no trouble getting the author's drift: when the freight must be moved, the strange...
...Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968, and the International Fuel Cycle Evaluation, the barely pronounceable INFCE, in 1977, that undertook the apparently futile task of dispersing the power without the danger. There now exist, theoretically, treaties keeping the peace on every continent, including Antarctica, and on the moon and the ocean floor. Yet these measures have failed either because the pacts have not been signed by all the nuclear nations, or because their terms were weak or limited, or because scattered throughout the nonproliferation efforts are test explosions of atomic and hydrogen bombs that give the chronology the sound...
Officials of the two groups sponsoring the visit said no plans had been made for another major address like the Sanders speech. "Dalai Lama" is a Mongolian title meaning "ocean of wisdom"; the current Dalai Lama is 46 years...