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Then, at 2:26 p.m., the whirling tape recorders, probably at the Japanese Defense Agency's massive radar installation in the otherwise sleepy town of Wakkanai on Hokkaido's northern tip, caught the incriminating conversations between a single Soviet fighter pilot and his unemotional commander on the ground. As reported in the Japanese press, the key transmissions included...
...founder of Operation PUSH (for People United to Serve Humanity), who is in the highly public process of deciding whether or not to make a bid for the presidency. Taking nearly three times the five minutes allotted to speakers, the safari-suited and hoarse-throated Jackson did not tip his hand one way or the other on the presidential question. But as the marchers hushed for one of the few sustained periods of quiet in a long day of oratory, Jackson delivered a spirited and frequently rousing, if occasionally strident, political address...
...experts argue over whether the actual rate of child abuse is rising, or just the reporting of it. Either way, only a small fraction of all abuses is reported. Guesses on the "tip of the iceberg" range from 10% to 25% of actual cases, but no one really knows...
...intruder appeared chastened, yet over the next two months there were about 20 other calls to the computer; the most recent took place on Aug. 11. In July the hospital received a tip identifying two young men in the Milwaukee area as the source of the trouble. The two were innocent, but the Milwaukee connection turned out to be the break that police needed. For months, FBI agents had been tracking the activities of a loosely organized gang of computer enthusiasts in and around Milwaukee who call themselves "the 414s" after that city's telephone area code. Using home...
...Missouri's Fifth District, which embraces most of Kansas City, is unduly modest. His colleagues laud him as bright and able. His sense of humor is self-deprecatory, but Wheat, 31, a member of the powerful Rules Committee, takes his job seriously. Says an aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "He worries about things like industrial policy...