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...Pentagon--by committing Canada to pay 40% of the cost of a $1.3 billion program to improve and upgrade the aging Distant Early Warning line, a network of radar stations strung across the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Built in the 1950s, the DEW line radars are now virtual museum pieces. In their place, the U.S. and Canada will install 13 manned long-range radar stations and 39 automated short-range radars capable of detecting and tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet cruise missiles. The project, known as the North Warning System, is part...
...deaths of 267 American servicemen and ended in the mortifying withdrawal of U.S. troops early last year. For the past 13 months, U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East has essentially been on hold. The tragedies in Lebanon had resulted in a vague policy known as disengagement, a virtual do-nothing stance. When the U.S.-mediated accord between Israel and Lebanon crumbled in March 1984, Secretary of State George Shultz remarked bitterly that Middle East governments reluctant to accept American peace overtures "must bear the responsibility to find alternative formulas...
There are limited funds available for physical research in the U.S. and more of it comes from government agencies Santilli claims that physicists at a few leading universities and research labs have a virtual monopoly on determining which research projects are supported and which are killed, because these physicists are always selected by government agencies, private foundation, and journals to review papers and grant proposals. Moreover, individual scientists cannot apply for grants without the endorsement of academic institutions and quite often, according to Santilli, the institution's name is the critical factor in the receipt of public money. He observes...
Analysts said the sales slowdown is affecting both the Macintosh line and the mainstay Apple II. The company has increasingly aimed the Macintosh at the business market, in the hope of ending the IBM PC's virtual stranglehold. To boost Macintosh sales, Apple has been offering dealers cash rebates as an incentive to slash prices...
Federal investigators in Boston claim to have collected a virtual 20-year history of Mob operations in that city in the form of 640 video and audio tapes. The FBI in 1981 planted bugs in the North End apartment and operating headquarters of a once rising Mafioso, Gennaro (Jerry) Angiulo, 65. Hidden FBI cameras also videotaped mobsters entering and leaving the apartment. Angiulo, four of his brothers and one of his sons have been charged with racketeering and will soon face trials in Boston. The city's respected First National Bank has been accused in an FBI affidavit of having...