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...film tiptoes around much of Woodward's most sensational material. Missing, for example, is a portrayal of such Hollywood stars as Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, reported in the book to have used cocaine with Belushi. Except for Aykroyd (Gary Groomes), Belushi's wife Judy (Lucinda Jenney) and Cathy Smith (Patti D'Arbanville), the woman who allegedly gave Belushi his fatal drug injection, most real-life characters are given pseudonyms, and none are shown indulging in drug use with Belushi. Only a couple of scenes offer hints that Hollywood might share any blame in Belushi's death...
...Defense Department, based on its history of cooperation with the Japanese Defense Agency, sees few dangers in the FSX. Pentagon planners say the Japanese will learn little from the aging F-16 airframe. At the same time, the Pentagon covets Japan's miniaturized phased- $ array radar technology, which will use thousands of tiny, independent sensors to sweep large sections of the sky. The new radar will provide sharper resolution and greater range than traditional back-and-forth scanners. In addition, the Japanese will pay for the development of a larger, stronger and lighter wing...
Last week Finance Minister Pedro Aspe announced that Mexico had reached a tentative agreement with the International Monetary Fund to borrow $3.6 billion. Mexico plans to use the three-year loan to lower its debt payments by inducing banks to reduce the country's debt or the interest charged. It remains doubtful, however, that the IMF deal, which is part of a new U.S. policy announced last month by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and which could reduce Mexico's debt load by as much as 20%, is enough to jump-start the country's stalled economy. And even...
...reason Sun's computers have been so popular is that they use an industrial-strength operating system called Unix. First developed by AT&T, . Unix enables computers to do several jobs at once and allows a network of machines to share information and computing power. While Unix systems are generally too complex for casual users to operate, Sun's newer models are designed to be friendlier to novices. The SPARCstation 1 begins to bridge the gap between workstations and personal computers...
Despite the brouhaha, the Navy is going ahead with its plans to use the dolphins as guards. Thomas LaPuzza, a spokesman for the Naval Ocean Systems ) Center in San Diego, where the dolphins have been trained, refuses to comment on their mission, which is classified, but claims they are highly dependable. A thorough investigation by the federal Marine Mammal Commission cleared NOSC of charges that it had abused dolphins, and Democrat Norman Dicks, a Washington State Congressman who sits on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, came away from a classified briefing on the project reassured that the animals "are more...