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Good old rotary-style pay phones are making a comeback. The reason is not nostalgia but an effort to thwart drug dealers who use push-button phones as their command posts. The dealers, who typically wear pagers, can send and receive messages via touch-tone phones to clients and colleagues. But most pagers will not work in conjunction with dial phones. U S West Communications, a subsidiary of one of the regional phone companies, has replaced push-button pay phones with rotary models at 18 locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Neighbors and law-enforcement officials are delighted...
...Gunn is not really in need of a defense, philosophical or otherwise. She is a vibrant Rosencrantz, portraying the courtier with an appropriate mix of thickheadedness, naivete and confusion. Her facial expressions are extraordinarily expressive, and her command of mannerisms impressive...
...yesterday, on the spot where George Washington first took command of the Continental army, the outward signs of patriotism were all there. The veterans put on their uniforms once again and held their flags aloft. A taped band played martial airs, and the military cannon was fired once again...
...cold war adds new pressures. In spite of Gorbachev's insistence that there are no military solutions to East-West relations, his high command still tends to believe it is a zero-sum contest, a question of who prevails over whom. When Moscow loses the West wins, and vice versa. These days the Soviet Union is losing Eastern Europe and digging in hard to keep from losing one of its own republics. The U.S. is not only winning, many senior Soviet commanders feel, but gloating about the Soviet decline. "The American invasion of Panama was a gift for the generals...
Semtex's most famous target was Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, killing all 259 on board and eleven people on the ground. Scottish officials have concluded that a terrorist group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command blew / up the plane by concealing Semtex in a radio-cassette player and smuggling it aboard in a suitcase. Semtex is also thought to have been used to destroy a French DC-10 over the Sahara last September, killing 170 people. While visiting London last week, President Vaclav Havel acknowledged that...