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Nakasone had hoped for a surge of support from his party's power brokers following the seven-nation economic summit in Tokyo last month to pave the way toward an unprecedented third term. Instead, he was widely denounced for his handling of the meeting. His vaunted friendship with President Reagan produced no progress on stabilizing the yen, which has risen more than 30% against the dollar since September, cutting into the competitiveness of Japanese exports. After lobbying for rigid caps on currency fluctuations, Nakasone reluctantly went along with the other summit leaders and agreed to a vague system of monitoring...
...connecting these complex medical discoveries to an actual cure is another matter. Harvard researchers hope their work will pave the way to either a vaccine, which would keep people from being infected, or a drug, which would help kill or control the AIDS virus. Their work is also devoted to developing tests to catch people who are carrying the virus and determining how many of them will actually get sick...
...prime weapon of last week's raid was an advanced version of the F-111 fitted with a special electronics navigation and targeting pod known as Pave Tack. Developed by Ford Aerospace & Communications and first delivered to the Air Force less than six years ago, the pod fits in the weapons bay of the F- 111 and allows the pilot to find his target in total darkness while moving at very high speed...
...they flew to within 30 miles of the Libyan coast, weapons-systems officers (called whizzos), who sit beside the pilot on each F-111, went into action. They lowered the Pave Tack pods, which began sweeping the horizon first with radar and then with infrared cameras, transmitting fairly detailed pictures of the ground below to a radar-infrared scope that is like a small television screen on the aircraft's instrument panel. The whizzos knew what to look for: before taking off from England, they had thoroughly studied aerial- reconnaissance photographs of their targets. In addition, information to find...
...bombs are released to drop in a controlled fall. Then, in what is called a toss, an evasive maneuver to avoid damage by the explosion of his own bombs, the pilot suddenly takes the plane up to about 1,200 ft. Though the plane is wrenching upward, the Pave Tack system, mounted on a device that can swivel 360 degrees , keeps its laser eye on the target all the while...