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...cross the region. In Ramallah, thousands of angry demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags surge down the main street protesting the Israeli occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon Moreh, illegally situated Jewish settlers set up barbed wire to resist the Israeli soldiers...
...that the crucial issue in any negotiations would be control of El Salvador's army and arsenals. Some rebel factions demand a complete purge of the current military leadership because of its ties to the old ruling oligarchy and the savage right-wing "death squads" that still roam the country. Whatever group takes charge of the country's firepower-as the Sandinistas did from the outset in Nicaragua-will be able to impose its will on the rest of the country...
...Angolans have good reason for wanting to rid themselves of the Cubans. The impoverished Luanda government must pay the troops in precious hard currency. Moreover, the Cubans have not succeeded in stamping out the resistance of Jonas Savimbi, a South African-backed rebel whose forces roam free in much of southern Angola. Dos Santos evidently believes a Cuban withdrawal will bring in significant Western economic aid to exploit Angola's vast mineral resources. But any withdrawal of the Cubans would leave open to question the fate of Savimbi and his antigovernment forces. Says one U.S. analyst: "There are many...
Such programs are no deterrent, though, when the criminal is a trusted employee with authorization to roam through the computer system. In that situation, a company can hope to catch the culprit only after his misdeed has taken place. Several companies have developed programs that enable auditors to probe the record of transactions on a computer for any irregularities. Such a program is designed, for example, to uncover any unusually large or frequent transfers of money. A leading producer of these audit programs is Cullinane Database Systems of Westwood, Mass. Its sales grew 66% last year to $29 million...
...wasting your time and our money, people leave you alone. The place demands that you work. But it also demands that you think " The research aims at practical products that AT&T can some day put on the market. But beyond that broad guideline scientists can let their imaginations roam. Take Penzias,' whose Nobel was awarded for an achievement that is not likely to have much effect on the average telephone user. In the mid-1960s, he and fellow Bell Scientist Robert Wilson detected faint echoes of the creation, the Big Bang that is believed to have formed...