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...Tartaglia, is filled with parrots whose gorgeous plummage creates a fluttering rainbow swirling in the air. Clever back-lighting on a pale skrim projects a prancing menagerie of lions and tigers and bears. A poor of light, lit from below the stage, suggests a woodland stream around which the overhead-lighting throws a sun-dappled forest floor. The fragile nobility of the two stags, with their breathtakingly lovely coats of the palest pastel, steal the forest show...
Amman resembled an armed fortress, mostly out of fear that Arafat or Hussein might be assassinated. Green-bereted soldiers stood watch on rooftops, roads were blocked, and helicopters clacked overhead. At the Regency Palace Hotel, where Arafat stayed, P.L.O. aides tested the food before it was served. The city held a bitter nostalgia for host and guest alike: in what became known as the "Black September" of 1970, Hussein's army began to expel the P.L.O.'s guerrillas from Jordan...
...taking so long," apologizes Gardner. "It's harder than it looks, just floating around." Back at mission control, a NASA spokesman quickly reminds reporters of the momentousness of the occasion: "Joe Allen now qualifies as the first human in history to hold a 1,200-lb. satellite overhead for one trip around the world...
...crucial day dawned, hordes of ordinary Salvadorans began streaming into La Palma. The Duarte government urged the President's supporters to make an appearance at the peace talks. The guerrillas had also turned out their followers, and strands of red flags joined the white banners overhead. In the town square a group of 100 schoolchildren waving white pompons were soon surrounded by lean, stony-faced fieldworkers and their families. Between 15,000 and 20,000 witnesses eventually filled the town. None of them, impressively enough, carried the ubiquitous machetes that serve the peasants as both tools and weapons...
...worry about competitive bidding when renegotiating Pentagon contracts. Their profits are generally fixed as a percentage of costs. Or supposed costs: an Air Force study of six major contractors, released to a congressional committee last week, disclosed that they routinely mark up labor expenses by-quite legally-computing in overhead charges more than ten times as high as those of civilian business. The cost may reach $50 billion a year. "When you see a beautiful military jet flying overhead," said the study's author, Air Force Analyst A. Ernest Fitzgerald, "you're seeing a collection of overpriced parts...