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...Gerald Ford in New York, and he eagerly signed on. Then the White House and State Department began the frantic and difficult job of selecting the rest of the official party and assigning the 52 seats for guests and crew on board SAM (for Special Air Missions) 26000. (The code name Air Force One is reserved to any Air Force plane with the incumbent President aboard.) The aircraft was the same Boeing 707 on which Lyndon Johnson was sworn in, and which carried the body of John Kennedy from Dallas to Washington, D.C. Pleas for space came...
...addition, Washington last week dispatched two AW ACS planes from the U.S. to Egypt both to symbolize U.S. commitment and to improve that country's air surveillance of Libya. Finally, officials in Washington and Cairo were still working out details of a monthlong joint military training exercise, code-named "Bright Star," scheduled to begin next month in Egypt. Some 4,000 U.S. troops will take part in the maneuvers, which were planned months before Sadat's death. The Sudan will join the exercise, and Washington is trying to persuade Oman and Somalia to participate...
...which guards and inmates alike call "the hell-house"-was the site of one of the country's worst prison riots. In February of last year convicts went berserk, killing 33 fellow prisoners, some with acetylene torches. Many of the victims were suspected of having broken the sacred code of cons everywhere: never snitch. Now trials are either over, under way, or imminent for 27 inmates charged with murder in the riot-and this, in turn, has inspired more bloodshed: Explains Joanne Brown, director of Adult Institutions and one of the state's top prison officials: "Everybody...
...price of each item, the total bill and the amount of change owed shoppers. The machine, dubbed POSitalker, is usually connected to a so-called laser scanner, which is a computerized checkout machine that can automatically add up a shopper's selections simply by reading a computer code printed on the packages...
...contention that government should impose moral standards. In discussing prayer in public schools, he said that while he found nothing wrong with it, he opposed it on the grounds that it was "too divisive." In a country as diverse culturally and religiously as the United States, any set code of morals would also be divisive...