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These estimates may fall far short of reality because they include coverage for structural damage only. Critics of the insurance companies warn that if a serious quake were to strike all major population centers along the California coast, claims could go as high as $50 billion, when payoffs for loss of life, income and automobiles are included...
President Reagan telephoned Nunn to warn that his proposal would disrupt NATO at a time when the allies had just deployed controversial intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Secretary of State George Shultz traveled to the Hill to cajole key members. Also making pleas to Senators were ambassadors from West Germany, Britain and Italy. Nunn's amendment was defeated by a 55-41 vote, but only after Maine Republican William Cohen had worked out a less drastic alternative: U.S. troops would stay at the present level while the allies would be prodded to increase their commitments. Said Nunn afterward: "I achieved...
...these have not hurt the box-office receipts of either picture. Indiana Jones earned a phenomenal $94.5 million in its first 23 days, and Gremlins grossed $ 12.5 million in its first weekend. But they have incited a torrent of complaints that the PG rating given both movies fails to warn impressionable young children. The outcry has come not just from peevish movie critics but from theater owners and parents as well. Carl Hoffman, a film buyer for the Dubinsky Brothers movie chain in the Midwest, says that 50 people stalked out of a screening of Gremlins because of the violence...
...example, the directions for one Japanese-made turntable cartridge advise, "Furthermore, cantilever would be damaged when the stylus guard is touched and detouched." Even simple points about simple products can get lost in translation. The instructions for Swimotor, a Hong Kong-made toy that pulls children through water, warn that "the user must every time pay attention especially to the time used with this machine...
...mujahedin had some special help that enabled them to resist the formidable assault so well. Three weeks before the Soviet tanks began to roll, American spy satellites detected movements that allowed agents to warn the rebels of the impending attack. Massoud's radio performance was made possible by the use of more than 40 CIA-supplied portable transmitters. In response to a specific request from Massoud, the CIA also arranged to send hundreds of land mines by plane, ship, truck, camel and pony across three continents and through several intermediaries, so that they got into rebel hands just before...