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...would place a $90 million, high-powered radar station so close to an airport that it has to be shut down every time a plane lands? Someone, it turns out, who should know better: the U.S. Air Force Space Command. The problem exists at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, where a giant early- warning radar searches for missiles launched from submarines. But the apparatus is only 1.5 miles from the approach end of a runway, and Air Force electronic engineers fear that its emissions could trigger electromagnetic explosive devices on many military aircraft. Those devices are used mainly...
...students on short-term visas. Tehran-backed groups have a history of violent mischief in London, mostly bombings aimed at Iranian dissidents. Says Ian Geldard, head of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism: "In the Islamic world, a call from the Imam is a full command . . . The worst of it is that this threat could remain in effect for months." Or even years. In a BBC radio interview, an exiled Iranian film director, Reza Fazeli, who himself has been the target of a Khomeini death threat and whose son was killed in a 1986 terrorist attack...
...rates. By then Darman had survived some of his conservative antagonists and made peace with others. Twenty-one months ago, he took a respite by going into investment banking. But a Republican victory in 1988, he knew, would be an opportunity for a new assignment. He wanted his own command this time, free of senior patrons, such as Richardson and Baker. Though he lacked a strong relationship with Bush, he was soon an economic adviser. Darman's friends in the Bush camp made sure he had ample access; he capitalized on that by enthusiastically elaborating on the "flexible-freeze" scheme...
...military, which spends $199 million a year on recruitment, says it is not threatened by the peace groups. "They offer theories and rhetoric, but we offer $25,200 for college," says Lieut. Colonel John Cullen, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command. Still, the Department of Defense next month plans to argue in favor of overturning a 1988 federal-court decision that would allow antiwar activists equal access to career days in Atlanta high schools. In a landmark case five years ago, an interfaith peace and justice group called Clergy and Laity Concerned won the right to promote...
CAPTAIN Jean-Luc Picard is simply a jerk. He is strict with his crew and makes his decisions by the book. He even twitches when he says the word "civilian." Kirk was always wise and likeable. His successor cannot even joke with his second-in-command, whom he insists on calling "Number...