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Shipments of Nintendo's basic game-playing unit, which peaked at 9 million in 1989, dropped to 7.2 million last year and could fall to 4.5 million or fewer in 1991, according to figures released at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show. Nintendo is counting on its hand-held Game Boy and a more powerful machine due out later this year to take up the slack. But this time Nintendo is playing catch-up to rival products from Sega and NEC. And analysts say none of the new devices have what it takes to make another Super Mario...
Despite the pressure, Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams insisted that any nonpool reporter who tried to observe U.S. troops in action would promptly be "escorted back to a rear unit and, as soon as possible, back to Dhahran." Many Americans would like to believe that the Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield but in the headlines. The Pentagon denies it shares that view, but its actions gainsay its words...
...DATman, as the new small unit is nicknamed, is Sony's ultimate weapon in the DAT wars, a 1-lb. Walkman that will do just about everything the larger home deck will do, and one thing more: record with a microphone. Digital nirvana. The DATman is about the size of a Stephen King paperback, but rather less thick. It uses the same DAT cassette (which is less than half the size of the traditional analog cassette), records up to two hours of digitized splendor and plays it all back with impeccable fidelity. It makes conventional analog tape sound by comparison...
...bombings continued, and Abu Ibrahim remained a sore point in U.S.-Iraqi relations. In late 1984, as the war with Iran drained resources, U.S. officials claim, Iraq finally agreed to force him into retirement. Rashid and many other May 15 assets simply transferred to a Palestine Liberation Organization commando unit known as the Special Operations Group. "The terrorism continued, just under a different name," says Vincent Cannistraro, who left the CIA this fall as head of analysis and operations for the agency's counterterrorist center. According to associate deputy FBI director Buck Revell, Rashid is a prime suspect...
...lost focus of what we were trying to accomplish," Raveling huffed after the Trojans' 103-76 squeaker, here at Long Beach Arena. "We put them on the foul line much too much because of lazy defense...We were never really a cohesive unit...