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...compromise security or endanger the case against Noriega. The primary goal was always to get him out of power. I don't see what we get out of getting him convicted." Such talk may fuel the rumor among Panamanians that the tapes were intentionally passed to CNN to torpedo the trial and get the government off the hook. State has formally denied the allegation...
...report does not say so explicitly, the Canadian health-care system, based on principles of accessibility, universality and public funding, is a model. The reason Canada was not mentioned, according to one official: its system is considered by some to be "socialized medicine," a buzz word that could torpedo the reform effort. Besides, says Ball, the Canadian model could not be wholly transplanted into the U.S. because, among other reasons, Canadians trust their government more than Americans...
Armed with machines that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and span miles, researchers have forged a largely coherent model of the universe's basic building blocks. Now they are clamoring for the $7 billion-to-$8 billion superconducting supercollider, a mammoth device that may complete the picture -- or torpedo it. -- Can physicists ever fully understand the nature of matter...
...have become markedly quieter in recent years (partly because of Soviet espionage on U.S., Japanese and Norwegian propeller technology, which has reduced the cavitation, or spewing of noisy bubbles, from the blades). By some estimates, the Soviets are now able to slip undetected to within 10,000 yds., or torpedo range, of American boats. As a result, U.S. experts are scrambling to develop more sophisticated listening techniques...
Mubarak in effect redrafted the plan to take the sharper edges off both sides' objections. The U.S. backed the idea, and the P.L.O. did not torpedo it. While the Palestinian leadership has little faith that the plan will work, it does not want to bear responsibility for a failure. Faced with following through on its own official policy, the Israeli government fell to arguing with itself. Labor embraced Mubarak's proposal, while Shamir's Likud opposed large chunks of the plan. Two days of hot debate in the twelve-member Inner Cabinet last week produced a tie vote: de facto...