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...heavy metal -- but glorifying such far-right symbols as the Nazi swastika. The music, played by some 50 bands, provides a bond for Germany's neo-Nazi movement, a suspected source for much of the xenophobic violence that has claimed 17 lives in the past year. In a swift crackdown, German police raided studios, homes and offices, confiscating thousands of records and CDs. Whether anti-Nazi laws were broken remained unclear, since the operation produced no arrests...
...hardly dried on the bill passed by the Knesset making it legal for Israeli citizens to talk to members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Taking swift advantage, none other than Yasser Arafat was on the line from his headquarters in Tunisia to an Israeli television talk show, offering his enemies a "piece of the peace." Still, the government insists it will not speak directly to the P.L.O., despite leftists in the ruling coalition advocating an open dialogue...
...January, for example, NASA released several radar images of the 6.4-km-long (4-mile) dumbbell-shaped asteroid Toutatis taken when it sped within 3.5 million km (2.2 million miles) of Earth -- a hairbreadth by astronomical standards. And while the warning that the 10-km-wide (6-mile) Comet Swift-Tuttle might slam into Earth in 2126 has now been retracted, it briefly caused genuine concern among many scientists...
Antinuclear, anti-Star Wars scientists were not reassured. Some campaigned through last summer against even the mention of any nuclear deterrence in the final draft of the interception workshop's report. Then came word of Comet Swift-Tuttle. "Nothing so clears the mind as the sight of the gallows," quips Canavan, who oversaw the final report. "Even though Swift-Tuttle turned out to be a false alarm," he says, "it brought everyone's thinking into focus. There was no longer the kind of disagreement you saw earlier about nukes versus non-nukes." Compromises were made, and the long-delayed interception...
...THREAT OF SPEEDING TICKETS HAS SPURRED THE SWIFT development of RADAR- EVASION technology -- and not just in car-crazed countries like the U.S. and Japan. The military-communications journal Signal reports that at a military laboratory northeast of Moscow, scientists are conducting a new kind of applied research: painting their automobiles with the stealth coatings designed to protect Russia's high-performance aircraft from detection by radar. Invisible to radar guns, the lab docs expect to zip along the roads ticket-free...