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...Signal, Litton and Honeywell are among the front runners in the bid to provide flight control and other sophisticated systems. Reflecting Washington's desire to forge closer ties with India, the U.S. Air Force will provide training, consulting and testing facilities for the LCA. Washington hopes the agreement will render India less dependent on the Soviet Union; New Delhi still relies on Moscow for many of its weapons imports and most of its co-production deals. Says a Pentagon official: "U.S. policy is to help India become self-sufficient in defense technology...
...individual against private violence," declared Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was not a denial of the victim's constitutional rights. "While the state may have been aware of the dangers that Joshua faced in the free world, it played no part in their creation, nor did it do anything to render him any more vulnerable to them." The majority's ruling provoked an emotional dissent from Justice Harry Blackmun. "Poor Joshua! Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, cowardly and intemperate father, and abandoned by ((county officials)) who placed him in a dangerous predicament," he wrote...
Robert A. George, Azar's attorney, said that Azar is not guilty and that they intend to prove his innocence in court. George said that there was no evidence of "harm to his daughter that would render him liable...
...community as a whole. The moralistic name-calling might continue, though this would be deplorable. What is needed is an understanding that both sides in the dispute are part of the same community and ought to work together for the common good of the community. While this may not render an outcome acceptable to both sides, at least it will provide the common ground from which intelligent and hopefully effective discussion can be launched. Simon J. Alberga...
Roughly put, there are two schools of thought. One, articulated by Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, dreams unrealistically of other blacks rising to take Jackson's place. Nunn has no desire to ignore the Democrats' black base. He merely wants to render it less threatening to the white conservatives who have fled to the G.O.P. One way to do that, says Nunn, is to adopt centrist programs that "don't appear to give away the store," a shift that could only succeed with Jackson's concurrence -- as unlikely a prospect as the actual eclipsing of Jackson himself. The Governor...