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...tome in what is sure to be a continuing series of mea culpas and finger pointing organized around the theme, "Where the Reagan Revolution went astray." Despite some of the most successful politicking ever to emerge from the Oval Office, Reagan's ambitious plans to reform America in Ayn Rand's image have stalled in a pool of red ink, victim of the pragmatic wheel-dealing Stockman calls "Politics...
...success in "smuggling" it to human error, not a system deficiency. Firearms are only one of the tools of terrorism that have become more sophisticated. Security devices at airports are intended to spot weapons that could be used by hijackers. But Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp., a think tank in Santa Monica, Calif., warns that the machines cannot identify bombs like the one planted aboard the TWA plane last week. Says he: "Explosives are made out of organic material. They won't set off a metal detector, nor do they have any distinguishing silhouette...
...month after the ENIAC's public unveiling, Eckert and Mauchly resigned rather than turn their patent rights over to the university. Five years later they developed the first commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, but business reversals forced them to sell their fledgling computer company to Remington Rand. The final insult came in 1973. Seeking to invalidate Mauchly and Eckert's patent for "the" electronic computer, Honeywell convinced a federal judge that Mauchly had based his ideas for ENIAC on the work of a computer pioneer named John Atanasoff. The patent was dismissed, and Mauchly and Eckert lost legal claim...
Safran acknowledged grants from the Rand Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation--but not the CIA--in the book's preface, and has said that the spy agency made no changes in the work. (see related story, page...
...summer of 1981, Professor Safran began negotiations with the CIA for support of a research project on Saudi Arabia that had been underway since 1978 and supported by various sources including the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rand Corporation. Early in the negotiation process, Professor Safran consulted about the treatment of possible CIA research funding as an individual rather than an institutional agreement with the then Director of the CMES, who was simultaneously serving as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (editor's note: Professor of History Edward L. Keenan). In or around May of 1982, Professor Safran...