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Sometimes being the first in your dorm to own a computer isn't such a neat idea. Take it from the Happy Hacker whose dinosaur Radio Shack TRS-80 (circa. 1980) keeps getting offers from museum curators and plastic scrap dealers...
...British nuclear issue was also joined last week from an unfamiliar direction. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in a taped interview with the BBC scheduled for broadcast early this week, criticized the Labor Party for demanding that Britain scrap its nuclear arsenal, ban U.S. nuclear bases and prevent U.S. ships carrying nuclear arms from entering British waters. If a future Labor government should put such policies into operation, Weinberger warned, the result could be the dismantling of NATO. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, whose fellow party members are expected to reaffirm a no-nukes stand this week at their annual conference...
...their soil as a counterweight to the Soviet launchers. By carrying through the deployment, the U.S. made its point: it would defend its allies. Now it can sacrifice most of the missiles without loss, particularly since the original purpose of installing them was to persuade the Soviets to scrap most of the SS-20s. Ironically, West European leaders no longer embrace the "zero option" once favored by both Reagan and Gorbachev. Having incurred great political risks to get the cruises and Pershings deployed, European governments want to keep at least some as a sign of American determination to protect their...
Heart-wrenching drama can be found in Comrade Ed, the touching story of a wise, talking horse from the Great Patriotic War who teaches neighborhood children the virtues of informing on parents, saving scrap metal, and mixing a fine Molotov cocktail. The final episode of this miniseries is particularly moving, as the children wave goodbye to Ed as he is dragged off to the People's Glue Factory...
...week for the past 18 years, he will sit in front of an 8-ft.-high stack of broadcasting gear from 6 a.m., when the station signs on, until 10 p.m., when it signs off. WVCA's studio is atop the Whale-of-a-Wash laundromat. The scrap of paper next to the apartment buzzer says simply WVCA-GELLER. When Geller plans to go to the movies or on an errand, he tells his listeners so: "And now I am closing. I have to go to the doctor. The kidneys or something, I forget." Then WVCA shuts down till...