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...incinerator on Johnston Atoll, 750 miles from Hawaii, Congress put the program on hold because of cost and safety concerns. It resumed the incineration program 18 months later, when the independent National Research Council concluded that to pause and explore alternative disposal methods was too risky because the weapons--rockets, artillery shells, bombs and land mines--are deteriorating. There have been some 2,100 reported incidents of leakage inside the igloos. Last summer at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama, 60 workers were evacuated and one was hospitalized after the nerve gas sarin leaked from an M-55 rocket...
This year, we as a nation will have to decide the future of Medicare--a program that has forced our debt to rocket into the trillions. We as a nation will have to rein in the costs of this program that has taken from the struggling young to give to the well-off aged...
...Serbs could join the exodus by March 19. After talks with NATO officials, Krajisnik said that if the handover is not deferred, many Serbs will abandon the city, "and those who stay might organize armed resistance." The day before he spoke, one or more Serbs fired an antitank rocket that hit a streetcar in downtown Sarajevo, killing a 55-year-old woman. But Carl Bildt, civilian administrator of the peace accords, insists the transfer of power will go ahead...
DIED. ARTHUR RUDOLPH, 89, rocket scientist; in Hamburg, Germany. Rudolph developed the towering Saturn V booster that hurled American astronauts to the moon in 1969. But in the 1980s he was driven into exile after the Justice Department linked him to the use of forced labor at a Nazi V-2 rocket factory...
...STORY Two generations of kids' playthings--a cloth cowboy and a rocket man--reach detente in this marvelously inventive buddy film. Yes, the whole thing was animated by computer, but that's not the big news. It's that director John Lasseter is the year's most impressive new comedy visionary...