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Perhaps Photon's only problem is that old soldiers might just get bored and fade away. Complains Denverite Bates: "They need to change things from time to time." But Carter's empire is ready to strike back with new technology. Within a year, helmets will be equipped so that warriors can communicate with each other and receive running scores during the game. Ultimately, of course, Carter thinks he will prevail, because the Force is with him. --By Gordon M. Henry. Reported by David S. Jackson/Dallas and Robert C. Wurmstedt/Denver
...bulls were really running last week. From consumers to financiers, nearly everyone was celebrating the belief that the economy is kicking into high gear. Thanks to low inflation, the boom machine could hum smoothly for years. Carl Icahn, TWA's new chairman and top stockholder, struggles with a strike and mounting losses. The World Bank's new lender in chief...
...chairman and controlling stockholder has got nothing but trouble. As a strike by 6,000 flight attendants grounded nearly half of TWA's flights last week, the carrier's losses rose higher and higher. TWA had a $123 million deficit in the final quarter of 1985 and is expected to drop almost $200 million more in the first three months of this year. Concludes Robert Joedicke, an airline industry expert for the Shearson/Lehman Bros. investment firm: "Icahn has bitten off more than he can chew." The chairman, though, is maintaining a brave front. Says he: "I was looking...
...popular teacher who normally forgoes clerical garb, Curran was fired by Catholic University's bishop-dominated board in 1967 because of his liberal views, but was reinstated following a campus-wide faculty and student strike. After Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the traditional ban on artificial birth control in a 1968 encyclical, Curran rallied 600 Catholic academics and church professionals to endorse a statement that couples were justified in following their own conscience...
Reagan's decision to accelerate work on the 38,000-lb. Midgetman was designed to please strategists who favor the small mobile missiles. Their reasoning: compared with the Minuteman and the new MX, the truck-carried Midgetman will be less vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike and less destabilizing because it cannot threaten a knockout blow of its own. Many in the Pentagon, however, would like to put more warheads on the Midgetman and make it larger. Hence Reagan's decision to order study of a possible Mobileman missile, carrying as many as three warheads. Adding warheads, opponents protest, will...