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...Starting in May, the company's new 8-mm video camera and recorder will show up in many stores in the U.S. Price: $1,695. The system uses videotape about half the width of that in VCRs, which are now in nearly a fifth of American homes, in a unit about the size of an audiotape cassette. It will permit more compact playback and recording systems, with quality that is "as good as the Beta format," says Sony Deputy President Masaaki Morita, brother of the company's chairman, Akio...
...seems subtle, after the discovery of Waffen SS graves the need for subtlety vanishes. Even if one claims that the ordinary German soldier fought for Germany and not for Hitler, that cannot be said of the Waffen SS. Hitler's 1938 edict declared them to be "a standing armed unit exclusively at my disposal." A further directive in 1940 elaborated their future role. After the war the Third Reich would be expected to contain many non-Germanic nationalities. The Waffen SS would be the special state police force to keep order among these unruly elements. They proved themselves during...
Since 1946, 21 pilots have died during Angels shows. Nonetheless, Navy officials say, the supertrained unit and its dazzling displays are valuable in attracting young and talented recruits into the Navy and Air Force. In 1985 funding for the program was $4.2 million, about half the cost of replacements for the two A-4 jets...
...accomplishments when criminals like El Verdugo are on the loose. According to Mexican officials, Lazcano was a clean-cut Mexican army recruit from the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz when he was picked a decade ago to be part of the highly trained Airborne Special Forces Group. The unit was sent to the eastern border to battle drug trafficking. But in the late 1990s, Lazcano and more than 30 other members of the special forces began working for drug lord Osiel Cárdenas, head of the Matamoros-based Gulf cartel, which at the time controlled almost one-third...
...pull 1.3 million Mercedes-Benz cars worldwide back into the garage because of problems with voltage regulators, faulty software and defective braking systems in some models. They attacked him because Daimler announced it would take a €1.2 billion charge in 2005 to restructure its struggling Smart mini-car unit, which hasn't made a profit since its 1998 launch. And they attacked him for what Thomas Maier, fund manager at Union Investment - Germany's third largest investment fund, which holds some 500 million euros' worth of Daimler shares - called "serious management mistakes." In the U.S., Moody...