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According to Lewis, the "target date" for instituting Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) as a course requirement and phasing out the statistics test all undergraduates are currently required to take is 1999-2000, when this year's first-years are seniors...
Bill Clinton likes to point out that Russian missiles are no longer aimed at targets in the U.S. It is true that both sides agreed in 1994 to switch the missiles away from their cold war assignments, but it isn't true that this step moved the world a safe distance back from Armageddon. The missiles' computer memories retain those targets, and they can be restored very quickly. "It is just a matter of a couple of minutes," says a Defense Ministry official in Moscow. And if a missile is launched without a selected target--even if by accident...
DIED. MIKE ROYKO, 64, caustic Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist who ruled the Windy City from his Page 3 pulpit; after surgery for an aneurysm; in Chicago. From high-society dames to low-down pols (a frequent target was former Mayor Richard J. Daley), no one was safe from Royko's pen, including himself, as he learned when minorities protested his tactless quips. But Royko remained unrepentantly irreverent in his column...
...March that the country's nuclear control equipment will soon collapse without much-needed funding for repairs and upgrades. While the study rates the risk of an accidental nuclear attack as low under "normal circumstances," even one accidental launch could prove deadly. Although Russian missile technically no longer target the U.S., if a missile is launched without a destination it automatically reverts to its original target. Pentagon officials insist there is no evidence that risk of an accidental nuclear attack exists, since codes that control locks on the weapons and supply target data must first be bypassed for a missile...
Opening the way for U.S. weapons sales to Latin American countries, beginning with Chile, is the result of joint pressures by the greedy American arms lobby and Chile's money-happy army. The fighter planes Chile seeks have as their possible target Argentina, which is reducing its armed forces to most citizens' delight. The arms race is dangerous and could disrupt the extensive trade between Chile and Argentina, which is the best guarantee of peace. MARIO CASAS ELIA Buenos Aires...