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...Flying Tiger DC-8 cargo jet approached Runway 22-L. Suddenly, the unpredictable winds shook the 350,000-lb. plane. Pilot Jack Bliss fought to retain control. "Wind shear on approach," he warned the tower. "The wind pulls you down and turns you over ... you should close that runway." But he landed on it anyway, safely...
Inside the Tip. The Soviets want to retain the option of arming some of their SS-18s with single warheads and some with MIRVS. The U.S. argued that such a mix makes policing the SALT agreement nearly impossible. Reason: the satellite photos both sides use to count the number of missiles are unable to "peek" inside the tip of the missile to see if it has a multiple warhead. The U.S. position has thus been that once a class of missile has been tested with MIRVs, all units of that class must be considered MIRVed...
Editor Michele Slung offers a bright lineup of female sleuths dating from Victorian times to the 1940s. Aside from Mignon Eberhart and E. Phillips Oppenheim, the authors will be unfamiliar to all but cultists. Even the worst of them, though, retain a kind of campy charm. For if the paraphernalia of detection have not changed much over the past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics...
Cronies and Aunts. Today, Kim still appears to retain absolute power. Top government and party posts are dominated by trusted old cronies and relatives. His brother sits in the Politburo, while his wife is chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Women's League. A host of nieces and aunts hold high posts in that organization. The only challenge to Kim may be health: there have been rumors that he suffers from a malignant tumor in his neck...
Ford had in mind both ideology and costs. By the year 2000, perhaps 50% of the nation's electricity will be generated by atomic reactors, up from 5% today. Free-Marketeer Ford clearly does not want the Federal Government to retain a strangle hold over so great a portion of energy supplies. Moreover, to build ten new enrichment plants by 1990 would require a capital investment of about $30 billion. The President believes the Government has better uses for its money, especially since private industry wants to get into the nuclear-fuel business. Bechtel Corp. and Goodyear have already...