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...system this complex, software glitches are inevitable, as a Japanese Ministry of Construction fact sheet acknowledges. "When any anomaly occurs with running vehicle," the memo explains, "a warning is generated and vehicle operation changes from automated mode to manual mode." O.K., but what if you and the kids are playing Scrabble in the back of the camper van when that anomaly hits? You're traveling at highway speeds, and you have 1.5 seconds to bring the van under control before impact. Good luck...
...familiar with Starr's activities, last summer FBI agents armed with a search warrant scoured the home of Patsy Thomasson, deputy director of presidential personnel. They were looking for documents related to the 1993 firings in the White House travel office. It was Thomasson's files that contained a memo portraying Mrs. Clinton as a central figure in the firings, a role the First Lady has denied...
...that no one would catch on, Tarnoff had his wife book his airline ticket to Toronto, where he met with Alarcon in a hotel room to sign the deal. Tarnoff and Halperin were afraid the Cuban Americans might try to scuttle the talks. Indeed, a decision memo had to be sent to Clinton three times before he finally agreed to keep the negotiations secret from the core group. When the agreement was announced, however, angry Cuban Americans poured into the streets of Miami, and the core group retaliated by having Clinton oust Halperin as Cuba point man. The core group...
Last Week the National Archives disgorged 28,000 documents from the Nixon era. Among them, TIME's Hugh Sidey found a Dec. 11, 1970, memo from Nixon suggesting a letter be written to Sidey and sent by "one of our people" posing as an admirer. Excerpts from the memo...
...supportive in good times and bad. To say he "marched America with a cool and confident brilliance into the quagmire of Vietnam" is to ignore his prophetic June 30, 1965, memorandum concerning the major troop-deployment decisions that were to transform the conflict into an American war--a memo that characterized the plan for massive U.S. ground-force involvement as "rash to the point of folly." Your article also made a grotesque fiction of Bundy's life after he left the government. He was a superb president of the Ford Foundation. Serious historians of the nuclear age consider his book...