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...Their behavior is genial and gentle, with no rock-concert jostling; there might be an invisible Sister Mary Ignatius patrolling the sidewalk. One couple chats in Portuguese; a trio converses in Czech. It's a U.N. in miniature--so much so that when a derelict wanders by, desperate to strike up a monologue, he asks a gaggle of teens, "Excuse me, do you speak American?" This guy is a rap artist without synthesizer, improvising an autobiography as he addresses the girls, and they pretend not to notice him. "Hey, Elaine baby, did you know I played high school basketball with...
...first strike was launched in October. The missile was a 30-second television commercial showing a childlike drawing of stick figures, a simple house and a glum-faced sun. A Little Miss Muffet voice chirps, "I asked my daddy what this Star Wars stuff is all about. He said that right now we can't protect ourselves from nuclear weapons, and that's why the President wants to build a Peace Shield." Chunky red missiles begin to rain down, but they harmlessly disintegrate (pop! pop!) when they hit a bluish , Crayola arc in the sky. Presto, the arc becomes...
...neither side has the capacity to destroy the other? When pressed, most proponents of SDI acknowledge that perfection is probably a pipe dream, and show no intention of scrapping the nuclear stockpile. Rather, they conceive of a system that will greatly increase the Soviets' uncertainty about whether a first strike would disarm the U.S. SDI thus becomes an adjunct to nuclear deterrence rather than a replacement...
Police believe that some of the new roving packs may be directed by Fagin-style adults. They are looking into the possibility that one or two masterminds are behind as many as 60 jewelry-store robberies in Washington, Arizona, California, Nevada and Oregon. In other cases, the gangs strike a bit closer to home, acting on impulse. Says Commander Lorne Kramer of the Los Angeles Police Department: "They follow the money. Whoever's around will pile into cars and head off in search of victims...
...trouble began on Thursday in Chiba prefecture, just south of Tokyo, when 1,100 members of a renegade chapter of the Locomotive Engineers' Union went on a 24-hour wildcat strike. At issue was the proposed breakup of the stateowned Japanese National Railways and its eventual sale to private ownership. Privatization is favored by the government, which is liable for the JNR's deficit, which totals over $92 billion. The proposal was harshly denounced by the 38,000-member Locomotive Engineers' Union as well as by the 200,000-member National Railway Workers' Union because it could reduce...