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After the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded its 1979 investigation of the death of John F. Kennedy, its files were stored away in 848 cartons deep within the National Archives. Most were supposed to remain sealed there until the year 2009. But as a result of the fuss created by Oliver Stone's film JFK, researchers may be able to sift through the boxes much sooner. Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes, the Democrat who chaired the committee, pledged last week to push a House resolution lifting the 30-year secrecy rule...
...remaining years of Bendjedid's aborted five-year term. There is also no guarantee that the army rank and file, more than half of whom are draftees, will support the military leadership. French Arabist Francois Burgat predicts that the army maneuver will be viewed as an attempt by a select group of officers to hold on to their privileges while Algeria sinks further into economic decay. "I would not be surprised to see factions of the army break away and begin fighting the officers who are now in power," he warns. Whatever the outcome, it is plain that the military...
...enough or distinctive enough to capture the public imagination. Among the others: the gray wolf, grizzly bear, bald eagle, desert tortoise and, of course, the northern spotted owl. Since the Endangered Species Act, which commits the government to protecting all life forms from extinction, became law in 1973, this select group of animals has received an inordinate share of funding...
...games with the Olympic team, McEachran has 23 goals and 19 assists. He had two goals and three assists in five games while playing for the U.S. select team in the 1990 Goodwill Games...
Each ScanFone unit, which can also function as a regular telephone, features a magnetic-stripe credit card reader and a light pen to scan bar codes. After selecting groceries, customers punch in a delivery time, run a credit card through the magnetic reader and await delivery. On the retailer's end, a computer registers the order and professional shoppers hit the aisles, instructed to select the best cuts of meat and the freshest vegetables and fruits for ScanFoners. If successful, the system is expected to serve 16 cities by June...