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...request for a search warrant on grounds of insufficient evidence. As the deadline ticked closer, a three-member panel of the appeals court reviewed and finally reversed the earlier decision. Just seven minutes before the Elgaren was scheduled to lift anchor, anxious officials sped out to it in a launch and clambered aboard. They promptly ordered three 20-ft.-long containers to be hoisted by crane onto dry land. As the container ship headed toward Sweden several hours behind schedule, authorities opened the boxes. All their suspicions were confirmed: inside was a roomful of U.S.-made computer equipment, including...
President John F. Kennedy was chatting with his four year-old daughter Caroline at approximately 11:50 a.m. on October 16, 1962 when an advisor came into his office to inform him that a medium range ballistic missile launch site" was "installed in west central Cuba...
...local service, another from one of AT&T's proliferating competitors for long-distance tolls, and one from AT&T Information Systems for the lease of the telephone. Many people who previously rented their phones, though, may now buy them outright. Next week AT&T will launch the biggest private direct-mail operation in history. It will send brochures to 70 million customers telling them that under divestiture it will be taking over ownership of their telephone equipment. Consumers currently renting phones will be given options to buy them, continue leasing them, or purchase new equipment from...
Cellular phones rely on low-power transmitters in designated cells, or districts, to relay signals from passing automobiles equipped with the mobile phones. Last month Ameritech Mobile Communications introduced in Chicago the first commercial cellular mobile radio service. Bell Atlantic's Mobile Systems expects to launch cellular service early next year in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. By 1990 1.5 million cellular phones could be operating...
...movie (overtly political or not) with a strong point of view, Boat People is propaganda. Most of Vietnamese officialdom is polite but abrupt, in a hurry to build a model Marxist nation. The film's heroes are the "misfits" who anchor their dreams in the past or launch them into the faraway future. One aging captain of the revolution, educated in France many years earlier, drowns his disappointments in French poetry and the company of a backstreets madam. A boy of about ten, godfathered by American G.I.s, has the randy strut and rancid mouth of a pint-size Richard...