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...allies proved reluctant to say anything officially about the mounting crisis. At a European Community summit in London last week the twelve leaders agreed to avoid criticizing Washington. In France, an assistant to Premier Jacques Chirac said, "We don't intend to add the least little grain of salt" to the Reagan Administration's wounds. West Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung succinctly summed up the mood of allied capitals by comparing it to "the sound of embarrassed coughing...
Wood's problem was that the motors of his day could not turn at a constant enough rate of speed. As a result, the curvature of his mirror kept changing. Also he was unable to avoid vibrations, which set up ripples in the metallic pool. Wood was aware of another shortcoming of his telescope: because it always had to face straight up, it could not be swung around to point at interesting stars and galaxies or to take time-exposure photographs by following the celestial objects across the sky as the earth rotated...
...Jorex and his wife Wendy, 33, have five children aged 3 to 12, who live in Mindanao with relatives. They see the children twice a year, surreptitiously, to avoid detection by the authorities. An N.P.A. fighter for 15 years, Wendy is tormented by the idea that her children are vulnerable. "Sometimes it terrifies me to think what the soldiers might do to them," she says. Wendy claims that the military has taken photos of the house where they live, and that on one occasion a government soldier interrupted an N.P.A. radio communication to announce: "If you kill our colleagues...
...years by Mark Mumma, a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Omega against him and his company, Mummagraphics Inc. Omega alleged that Mumma engaged in a smear campaign waged on his many websites to brand our clients "criminal spammers" after Omega refused to pay Mumma $6,250 to avoid a lawsuit he threatened to file. Mumma based his characterization of our clients as "spammers" on the fact that he received e-mail that he claimed he did not ask for. Contrary to the content of the article, the evidence in the case shows that 1) the e-mail sent...
...Until then, says Leon, the U.S. should avoid the kind of diplomatic warfare that is Chavez's political oxygen. It made a start this month by finally indicting (at least on immigration charges) Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Castro Cuban exile accused by Cuba and Venezuela in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner as it left Venezuela. Chavez has pointed to the U.S.'s failure to prosecute Posada as evidence of Washington's double standard on terrorism. That charge could ebb if Bush puts Posada away - just as Chavez's anti-U.S. harangues have slowed ("Go to hell...