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...debates began only in 1960, when John Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off, and then there were no more in a presidential race for 16 years. But the current campaign is the third in a row in which the contenders have confronted each other on-camera, and in a sped-up age, three repetitions acquire the force of tradition. Ronald Reagan strengthened that tradition by breaking the informal taboo against an incumbent President's agreeing to debate when he enjoys a long lead. Reagan thus set a precedent that future incumbents may defy only at the peril of being...
...sonar detection. Nonetheless, China's navy has been receiving the lion's share of modernization funds. Its current manpower of 360,000 is more than double its 1970 strength, and the number of Chinese combat vessels has tripled to more than 300 since 1980. Behind the sped-up naval expansion program lie fears of the growing Soviet presence in Far Eastern waters, based in part on access and use privileges the Soviets have been granted at Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay. China also has offshore oilfields that might need protection in the future...
Tired and hoarse, but visibly elated from his election-night triumph, the Prime Minister-elect left his home town of Bale Comeau the next day aboard Manicougan I, the Boeing 727 that served as his traveling campaign headquarters. As the plane sped west toward Ottawa, TIME Correspondent Marcia Ganger talked with Mulroney about the campaign, the economy and his vision for Canada's future...
...militiaman in civilian clothes exchanged heated words with a soldier at one of the checkpoints on the demilitarized "green line" that divides Beirut. The militiaman then jumped into his car and sped away. A trivial enough incident, but it touched off the worst fighting in Lebanon's capital since the Syrian-backed peace plan was adopted July 4. In the four hours of fighting that followed, the largely Christian Fifth Brigade in the east traded fire with the mostly Muslim Sixth Brigade in the west. Five people were wounded. The event revived fears that the army is dangerously divided...
...carrying the X. To select males, a sample of semen is placed at the top of a glass column containing a solution of albumin, a sticky protein normally present in such bodily fluids as blood and semen. After an hour, more Y-containing sperm than sluggish Xs should have sped to the bottom. The Y sperm are further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes on," says Ericsson. The prospective mother is then artificially inseminated with the Y-concentrated sperm. Ericsson claims that...