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This week a seven-year-old disk drive in the system broke down, requiring a spare part to be flown in from California and inconveniencing users of the computer. Law said the two PDP 1170s are currently running at full capacity and an expected "exponential increase in use" of the computer will force some replacements within a few years...
...almost from his first day in the Pentagon, Alexander has been embroiled in arguments with his generals. Most of the disagreements stem from Alexander's insistence that the nation's seven-year-old all-volunteer force (AVF) is "as good or better" than the old Army, which filled its ranks mostly with draftees. The generals echo the official line in public. But in private they claim that the AVF is failing because it has had to lower standards to meet recruiting goals. Says one general of his peers: "All of them are lying when they...
...This is war!" he shouted as he opened fire with the AR-15. He killed five people, including a seven-year-old girl, and wounded eleven before fleeing to a nearby fire station. There he critically wounded himself with a shot in the forehead from the .22-cal. pistol. When policemen went to his isolated farmhouse eight miles from Daingerfield (pop. 2,800), they discovered his wife Gretchen bound to a kitchen chair with rope and telephone cord. On a table was a note: "Jeremiah says the King is the King of Kings." In the basement, the officers found...
...chuckles and recalls when he began writing Helen and Teacher about three years ago. His seven-year-old granddaughter had come to Martha's Vineyard to visit him and when she learned of his latest project, she announced that she "knew all about Helen Keller." He asked her why. "Our teacher read us a book about Helen Keller," she responded. Lash says his granddaughter--and others like her--remember the story of Helen Keller because she ranks among a number of select historical figures that people can identify with. "It's very easy to understand why," he says. "Here...
Although she was a novice in world affairs, the triumph of her first year was a foreign policy feat. Britain, to great acclaim, ended the seven-year-old Rhodesian civil war and brought majority rule to Zimbabwe in free and surprisingly fair elections. Observes an acerbic old-line British diplomat: "In foreign policy she has proved to be very wise by leaving it to [Foreign Secretary Lord] Carrington. But he couldn't have done it without her backing." Not coincidentally, Thatcher's worst performance came when Carrington, preoccupied with Rhodesia, was away from her side. At the European...