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...letter to Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, who called for the GAO investigation, Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci argued that the Pentagon's decision to buy the C-5B "was based on a careful analysis of our airlift needs." Indeed, experts predict that the joint congressional committee responsible for reconciling the two versions of the 1983 defense authorization bill will almost certainly follow the Pentagon's wishes. Unlike the 747, the C-5B can carry such outsize cargo as M-l and M-60 tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp...
...appearance of real writing in the world is a miracle. Sociology cannot predict it. But certain patterns appear. Perhaps great writers arrive only at certain stages of a civilization. Great writing may be conjured by great injustice, for example, and a peculiar receptivity in the audience, not gullibility exactly but a kind of craving, a deep need for moral definition. One detects tremors of both the talent and the need in Latin America. That part of the world is breeding up unexpected, wonderful writers the way Russia did in the 19th century Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for example...
...Ways and Means Committee in the Democrat-controlled House to report out a similar bill. Like several other committee members, Massachusetts Democrat James Shannon sees "a good chance" that this will happen, but quickly adds that there is no guarantee of passage. The catch: no one can predict the outcome of the battle on the House floor...
...what they see as Washington's lack of concern about the consequences of an Iranian invasion of Iraq. Indeed, some Arab analysts believe that Saddam Hussein's forthcoming battle could prove to be the most crucial military encounter in the Middle East in recent times. They predict that a Khomeini sweep into Iraq, conducted with the backing of the Soviet Union, would establish a pro-Iranian regime in Iraq that would then make its peace with Syria...
Scalise yesterday declined to predict whether the case, which charges him with being an accessory "after the fact," would go before a judge, saying his attorney, Albert F. Cullen, had spoken with the district attorney, Cullen could not be reached for comment...