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...French Foreign Legion fort in Ati, a Scottish legionnaire checks travel documents. Of the twelve robed passengers in our truck, he asks, "Who are all those guys with spears? Are they O.K.?" Before an excellent lunch, served on fine linen, the local legion commander says, "A Goran soldier can go 48 hours without water and a week without food. That's more than our boys can do." That night at a military outpost in Oum-Hadjer, a civil servant observes, "This war started out with cavalry and scimitars. Now it is all Soviet rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and antitank...
Since the invention of the primitive hand ax, humanity has turned to tools as a way of making life easier or work more productive. "Man is a tool-using animal," wrote the 19th century Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle. "Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Computer software is only the latest of those tools, and programmers are only beginning to understand the true potential of software. Says Dan Bricklin, chairman of Software Arts: "We're just really getting started. I think that you will see programs coming along in the next few years that...
...these explanations. The will to disbelieve our own governments is a very strong force in America and the West. We ran into this phenomenon when, in February 1981, we published a State Department White Paper called "Communist Interference in El Salvador." The White Paper's critics brought in the Scottish verdict: not proven. Perhaps no defense of the paper would have been equal to the task of quieting the outrage. We had told impermissible truths...
...frightened of life, often melancholy, always hypochondriac.... The record of E.B. White's absorptions is written for all to see in "Notes and Comment" first his Scottish terriers, then his guppies, more recently a serious interest in economics--and a continuation of his long campaign against...
MARRIED. Luci Baines Johnson, 36, daughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson; and Ian Turpin, 38, a Scottish banker based on Grand Cayman Island; both for the second time; at the L.B.J. Ranch in Stonewall, Texas. Her 1966 marriage to Patrick Nugent ended in divorce 13 years later. This time 300 friends were invited to the reception. "It was small from our perspective," said the bride...