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Soviet mock-bombing sorties, unlike the traditional reconnoitering flights practiced by both superpowers, have become increasingly common in the past year, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology. In the early 1980s the Alaskan Air Command intercepted only ten to 15 Soviet scout flights annually, but already this year U.S. F-15s have confronted 20 Bears. Each Soviet bomber is armed with as many as ten cruise missiles with a range of 1,500 miles; from Alaskan airspace, these weapons could reach U.S. missile sites in the Dakotas and Montana...
With lawyers to intercept his mail and bodyguards to screen his movements, the fugitive managed to elude the U.S. Capitol police for ten days. Finally, a stakeout caught him at a stoplight near his home in Great Falls, Va. Running in a half crouch, Sergeant Tom Moore sprinted past a backup car of security men, reached through the auto's open window and slapped his quarry on the chest with a congressional subpoena. "O.K., you got me," the captive conceded...
...defective functioning of monocytes and macrophages in a wide variety of diseases. Alpha interferon has been particularly effective against two types of leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system. Says Dr. Jordan Gutterman, of Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute: "There are ten different tumors in which potentially important anti-tumor activity by interferon has been demonstrated...
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered the 48-hour incursion in response to attacks on northern Israel by Palestinian guerrillas based in Lebanon. Since December, when the uprising began in the occupied territories, ten border raids have been attempted, five of them successful, leaving six Israelis dead ! and eight wounded. Rabin vowed to launch more such operations "as long as elements in Lebanon attempt attacks against Israel...
...assault on Nowa Huta, where about half the work force of 32,000 had joined the ten-day-old strike, began at 2 a.m. Thursday. The West German press agency D.P.A., which had the only Western reporter on the scene, said four buses carried several dozen secret police inside the plant. The commandos stunned the strikers, many of whom were sleeping, with concussion and flash grenades...