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...conventiongoers as early as Jan. 18, has adopted a complex election process. Two-thirds of the delegates will be nominated by twelve subcaucuses of Democratic backbenchers organized by geographic region; the remaining third will be put up by the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, chaired by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. If a would-be delegate is passed over, he can put his candidacy before the House Democratic Caucus by persuading five colleagues to sign a nominating petition. Such candidates will be long shots, however, since the House Caucus is expected simply to ratify the nominations passed along...
...also a major propaganda coup for the I.R.A. The escape came after a wave of arrests and convictions during the past year (thanks to the testimony of several "supergrasses," or onetime terrorists turned informers) that has severely shaken the organization. The slang term to grass means to tip off policemen. Evidence from just one supergrass, Christopher Black, has led to 35 convictions, including that of Kevin Artt. Largely because of the informers, political murders in Northern Ireland have fallen dramatically, from 97 in 1982 to 47 so far this year. That sort of success led Ulster authorities to expect some...
...caught fire when its fuel tank, containing some 270 tons of kerosene and liquid oxygen, suddenly ignited and turned the launching pad into a flaming ball. In such emergencies, the capsule, its crew snugly strapped inside, blasts away from the pad within milliseconds after the blowup. The rocket tip arcs up to an altitude of several thousand feet, where the capsule then rolls out of its casing (much like a tennis ball out of a tin can) and parachutes safely back to earth...
...sights on about 20 Democrats who had voted against an amendment that would have denied IMF credits to Communist countries. The G.O.P. committee sent news releases to the home districts of the 20 Democrats accusing the Congressmen of casting a "vote to support Communism." That so enraged House Speaker Tip O'Neill that he demanded a letter of apology from the President. Without one, said O'Neill, the Democratic leader would not name any members of the Senate-House conference committee that must iron out the differences between the Senate and House bills. In addition, Democrat Fernand...
...entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 450. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob...