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Your story incorrectly stated: "Despite signs of growing grass-roots support for tougher gun laws, Americans will apparently have to settle for the President's proposed ban on 'Saturday night specials,' an idea even the N.R.A. endorses...
Bombarded by criticism and hounded by investigations, the CIA is beginning to take on some of the characteristics of the State Department during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s: morale is falling, effectiveness is diminishing, recruiting is becoming tougher, and good men are wary of committing their thoughts to paper in memos and recommendations that might come back to haunt them some day. Last week the pressure on the besieged CIA continued with a welter of new accusations...
...responsibility for closing specific runways or the entire field. Controllers are required to advise pilots of adverse conditions but cannot order them to seek another airfield. The Kennedy crash makes plain the need for clearer standards for determining when wind shear presents grave dangers, as well as tougher guidelines on what course to take when it does...
...Geneva conference adjourned without taking any concrete steps to strengthen the treaty. Nonetheless, tougher measures to monitor the spread of nuclear technology may still be possible. In mid-June representatives of the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and Canada (the so-called nuclear suppliers club) secretly gathered in London for their second meeting this year. The Bonn-Brasilia full cycle deal was apparently on their minds; it is believed they reached a consensus for drafting new controls for the transfer of nuclear supplies and technology. A new code, for instance, might force nuclear equipment buyers-like Brazil...
Gliding Down. Vaulter Smith, 23, has had a tougher climb to the top. He joined the pro tour last year to compete head to head with Old Rival Bob Seagren. He has since taken Seagren twelve out of 18 times. And at Madison Square Garden the last week in May, Smith soared 18 ft. 5 in., exceeding by an inch his own world indoor mark...