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Five years ago, IBM was forced to retreat from the home-computer business after its PCjr. proved to be a flop. Last week the company rolled out a new line of computers designed for novice users. The PS/1 represents a vast improvement over the PCjr., which was much maligned as awkward and toylike. The new computers come loaded with user-friendly software programs, and IBM has developed an electronic hot line to help first-time buyers. Yet the PS/1 faces obstacles, notably the abundance of competitors. Another drawback is PS/ 1's cost, estimated...
...Idaho veto and the pending one in Louisiana have not caused pro-lifers to retreat from their position on rape and incest. National Right to Life Committee spokeswoman Smith cites Pennsylvania's experience to show that women lie about rape. When the state did not require that rape or incest be reported to appropriate authorities, an average of 36 rape-related abortions a month were paid for by the state. When reporting requirements took effect in 1988, that number went down to about three a month...
...betting is that Bush will not loosen sanctions now, in part as a gesture to black voters he is trying to lure to the G.O.P. Mandela's aim is to leave Washington with some sign that the Administration will not retreat from that grudging support. Continued U.S. sanctions would give Mandela a powerful hand to play when he and other A.N.C. officials eventually sit down to negotiations with the Pretoria government. It would also help Mandela when he arrives next week in Britain, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been anxious to reward South Africa for the gestures De Klerk...
...that point the Germans will be sorely tempted, for reasons that have nothing to do with the poltergeists of national character, to want their own nuclear deterrent. Never mind what Kohl told Bush at Camp David in February, or what Bush told Mikhail Gorbachev at the same mountaintop retreat earlier this month, or what Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet two weeks ago when he seemed, with much ambiguity and no enthusiasm, to accept the idea of the West German army remaining in NATO. Never mind what agreements were signed as a result of the Two-plus-Four talks back...
...great firs may not see the forest that way, but many have no less reverence for it. The lumberjacks of Douglas County are not boisterous back-slapping rubes but pensive men who feel as much a part of this rugged landscape as the black-tailed deer and elk that retreat from the sound of their saws. A popular bumper sticker here declares, FOR A FORESTER, EVERY DAY IS EARTH DAY. Rather than surrender the name "environmentalist" to their foes, they have labeled the opposition "preservationists." Many loggers never finished high school but followed their fathers and grandfathers into the woods...