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...ends. The gravediggers on Hart Island repair to a black-and-white television set to watch a rerun of Bonanza. Outside, in a corner of the field, last light leaves a stone on which somebody etched, "Cry not for us for we are with the Father. No longer do we cast shadows on the ground as you do. We are at peace...
...City police, the FBI and New York Telephone security, which tapped the phone lines connected to the machine. Then Chui tried to reach the intruders by leaving messages in their computer terminals. "You have done some harm to the system," read one plea. "Please call us and help us repair the damage." About an hour after the message went out, someone called back. "He said he was sorry," recalls Chui. "But when we asked how he got into the system he refused to answer...
...times over 30 minutes before successfully making a collect call to her parents in Dayton. Ohio Bell reported that on the first day of the strike its supervisors could handle only 153,000 operator-assisted long-distance calls, instead of the normal 289,000. Phone installations were postponed, and repair work was held up. Southern New England Telephone admitted that problems normally fixed in a day were going untended for as long as four days. Troubleshooting managers swapped suits and ties for work shirts and blue jeans as they clambered up telephone poles and crawled into manholes. Many had never...
...characterize U.S.-Soviet relations." (The sadistic sheriff in Cool Hand Luke was more succinct: pointing to the rebellious prisoner he had just brutalized, he explained, "What we've got here is failure to communicate.") It is the broken-telephone theory of international conflict, and it suggests a solution: repair service by the expert "facilitator," the Harvard negotiations professor. Hence the vogue for peace academies, the mania for mediators, the belief that the world's conundrums would yield to the right intermediary, the right presidential envoy, the right socialist international delegation. Yet Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Iran...
...Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation after complaints that when the brakes were applied even moderately, the rear wheels tended to lock and throw the car into a skid. After much prodding, GM announced a recall of 47,371 X-cars some 20 months later. But it did not repair the brake defect successfully. Last January N.H.T.S.A. declared that about 320,000 of the cars were unsafe. In February 1983, GM ordered a second recall of 240,000 cars. N.H.T.S.A. still considered the action inadequate. The Government charges that the brake defect has caused 71 injuries and 15 deaths...