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...attack planes took off from the Saratoga after Navy sensors detected radar emissions from the missile site at Surt. They flew to about 40 miles from the base and released their high-speed anti- radiation missiles (HARM). The missiles home in on radar waves and are designed to destroy the transmitter, not the missiles or launchers themselves. "We shot out the tires," said one Pentagon official. "We didn't need to fire a pistol through the windshield to take out the driver...
This enterprise is more troublesome than it might seem, however, because the setting is Maggie Thatcher's Britain. The plot moves along as Omar encounters the racist tensions and youthful frustrations of the fair Queen's city, which threaten to rise above the surface and destroy the young Pakistani's sweet dreams...
...misery of the Black community. As Sanford J. Ungar and Peter Vale, the latter a professor at South Africa's Rhodes University, argued in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs: "Given the level of suffering that already exists in the country, it is in no one's interest to destroy the South African economy or to induce further chaos in the country." Writes Alan Paton: "I will never give any support to any campaign that will put men out of jobs...
Well, what could please Commissar Abramski more than a war in Central America? What better way to arm communists in the region, or to destabilize its fragile governments, than to create a war that is sure to destroy much industry and agriculture, to radicalize and embitter the peasantry and to make Soviet allies ever more dependent on aid and military support from Moscow...
...three years left before I have to start heeding the tick of the statistical clock. By then, I'll just be starting graduate school. I can see it now, sandwiched between hours in the Law Library and reading up on torts in my room, I can schedule search and destroy sessions in which I'll telephone, write to, visit or similarly network all the eligible males of my acquaintance in the hope that one of them will finally crack. Actually, things might not be as black as they seem; after all, I hear that Dr. Bennet is still single...