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...able to fight city hall, but in Santa Monica, Calif., you can interrogate it by computer. Last week the city's new Public Electronic Network went on-line. As brochures mailed to residents advertised, PEN allows any citizen with a computer and a modem to communicate with city hall. Those who do not have a home computer can use any one of 20 public terminals set up at libraries and recreational centers...
...discourage sabotage by hackers, users must pledge to employ PEN for only legal purposes before they are allowed access to the system. "We expect to get a lot of the same questions we're getting now," says Assistant City Manager Lynne Barrette. " 'What's the status of a particular issue? To whom do I complain about the tree trimming on my street?' -- only via the computer...
Scoring PlayerG GI A Pts Pen P M Peter Ciavaglia 26 10 38 48 16 3 2 Lane MacDonald 24 22 24 46 16 3 2 C.J. Young 26 26 18 44 10 20 Allen Bourbeau 25 10 33 43 15 38 Ted Donato 26 11 29 40 9 26 John Weisbrod 23 19 7 26 14 31 John Murphy 25 9 13 22 4 8 Nick Carone 25 7 12 19 10 20 Tod Hartje 25 3 15 18 12 30 Mike Vukonich 19 10 6 16 5 10 Ed Presz 26 9 6 15 10 24 Ed Krayer...
...executive officer. "It is regrettable that a foreign government has been able to hold hostage our most sacred First Amendment principle. Nevertheless, the safety of our employees and patrons must take precedence." Though American writers' groups were at first slow to react to the controversy, the 2,200- member PEN American Center later issued a statement in support of Rushdie...
...Pen pal of Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender. A compulsive reader whose idea of a grand evening was to curl up, sober, by a fireplace with a stack of paperbacks. A man who told his famously beautiful wife that the only thing to venerate in life is not love but language. This, surely, is not the Richard Burton of the boozy brawls, the ruined talents, the tossed-away millions on baubles for Elizabeth Taylor, the woman he obsessed over but could not stay married to. Yet both personalities come alive in Melvyn Bragg's meticulous biography. Not many surprises...