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...after a successful trial run, gaggles of geese will soon begin guard duty at American military installations in West Germany. Eventually, 900 of the squawking waterfowl, in platoons of six to 40, will take up posts at 30 sites run by the U.S. Army's 32nd Air Defense Command. The idea is not as ludicrous as it may seem. With their acute sense of hearing, geese when startled sound the alarm by hissing, honking loudly and flapping their wings. Indeed, the ancient Romans used geese as guards. The web-footed sentinels are said to have saved Rome by raising...
...insight into sexuality, is one that some people find difficult to accept or understand. Most of us who strive to accept and embrace it admit that it is not an easy truth to integrate into our personal lives or explain to the world around us. Consistent with the Christian command "to love in truth and in deed," we struggle as single and married people, as heterosexual and homosexual people, to find ways to help one another and those beyond our community of faith to discover the meaning and value of sexuality in ways that are sensitive and yet true...
...just two days before the anniversary ceremonies were held last week, yet another U.S. space failure occurred: the main engine of a $30 million Delta rocket carrying a $57.5 million weather satellite shut down just 71 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral. The Delta was destroyed by ground command. "We like to feel we're infallible," Shuttle Astronaut Bob ) Crippen told the subdued workers at the cape. "We're not. We proved that on Jan. 28 and underscored it this past Saturday...
...bridge marking the starting line at Lake Quinsigamond in Worchester, Mass., an ominous voice will begin to count down over the loudspeakers to the six assembled freshman lightweight crews, "FIVE, FOUR, THREE,"--each number echoing several times over the surface of the water. When the starter gives the command "ROW", the finals of the 41st annual E.A.R.C Regatta--better known as the Eastern Sprints--will be under...
...previously implied, but professed ignorance of any systematic extermination of Yugoslav partisans or the removal of Greek Jews to death camps. Last week, at the National Archives in Washington, an army journal was unearthed in which Waldheim had actually noted orders from the German High Command to eliminate partisans. Yet the more international outrage mounted, the more Austrians defiantly rallied behind their native son. That sent him ahead of Steyrer in the polls...