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Safety precautions are not limited to possible ground attacks. Presidents have been protected from an air attack by a cache of ground-to-air missiles that are hidden near the White House. From a command and control center in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, security officers closely monitor all aircraft using nearby National Airport; they have less than a minute to decide whether to fire if a plane deviates suspiciously from an established flight pattern. Officials refuse to say what types of missiles are used...
...momentum was building even before Reagan and his NSC gave their collective go-ahead for the five-year plan, which must still be formally proposed to Congress. Early last month the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested that the year-old Air Force Space Command be subsumed under a new, unified U.S. Space Command for all four service branches. Last week, even as the NSC met at the White House, the Space Shuttle flight crew was 150 miles overhead carrying out exotic experiments, and just a day earlier the Air Force announced that its Airborne Laser Laboratory had used a beam...
...stretch of Pacific beach and can roam freely through most of the countryside. To the north, the insurgents have streamed down from Chalatenango and the mountain redoubt of Guazapa to infiltrate the province of Cabañas and the fertile strip of northern Cuscatlán (see map). Though command of the villages seesaws between rebel and government forces, the guerrillas have held on to about 50 towns. For the first time in the four-year civil war, the forces of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), an umbrella organization for five guerrilla groups, are consolidating their power...
...Cable News Network provided the first 24-hour news service. The average American now spends about four hours a week watching newscasts. The newspaper industry has been shaken by failures and mergers that have stilled dozens of "second" voices in cities, but the 1,700 U.S. dailies still command an estimated readership of at least 110 million people a day. Moreover, consumers have some choice: there may be only local-monopoly newspapers covering their communities, and local TV stations may simply follow the papers' lead, but there are numerous ways to get national and international news...
...Smithsonian Institution is the repository of national memory. In the celebrated Air and Space Museum, the frail craft that the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., hovers near the command module of Apollo 11, which first put man on the moon. In the Museum of American History are the portable desk that Thomas Jefferson designed and then used while writing the Declaration of Independence, the original Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Md., and one of the first Teddy bears, approved by Teddy Roosevelt himself. Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park (Smithsonian Books; ($60) is a grand...