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...then, can the Aegis system or its operators tell what kind of aircraft they are tracking? One method is flight pattern. Although the Pentagon at first asserted that the Airbus was outside the normal pathway for airline flights over the gulf, it has since conceded that the plane stayed within the 20-mi.-wide corridor all the time. The Pentagon claimed, however, that the pilot had wandered toward the western edge of the corridor and corrected that by veering back east toward the center line. As fate would have it, that turn headed the plane in the direction...
...populist Lazaro Cardenas, who nationalized Mexico's oil industry during his 1934-40 presidency, is all too aware of how entrenched that system is. A former governor of the state of Michoacan, Cardenas with other top P.R.I. officials attempted in 1986 to democratize the party's method of selecting presidential candidates. When they failed, Cardenas accepted the nomination of the leftist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution and has since forged an alliance with four left-wing parties. "P.R.I. underestimated Cardenas immensely," says Castaneda. "Now the more they antagonize him, the stronger he gets...
Finally, Donaldson reveals an imprecise grasp of the narrative method, the notion that one thing leads to another. He alludes to a reconciliation between Cheever and his son Ben without ever having explained when or why they were estranged. And Donaldson writes, "As his fame grew, so did the local demands on his time from libraries, colleges, and civic and cultural associations." Exactly two pages later, this sentence obtrudes: "Cheever's reputation was at its nadir...
...State Department is trying to persuade Lilly to reverse its decision. Meanwhile, they will continue to press Peru to rip out the coca plants by hand. Though ecologically safe, that method has drawbacks: the program last year managed to clear only 876 of the 395,000 acres under coca cultivation...
...public TV, his cameras have observed institutions from a New York City welfare office to Dallas' Neiman-Marcus department store, all with the same unvarnished, fly-on-the-wall style. Even his titles -- Hospital, Welfare, Racetrack, The Store -- are stripped to the bluntly descriptive essentials. Behind Wiseman's minimalist method, however, is a subtle and perceptive artist. His enduring subject: the way people cope with the stress, dislocation and institutional indifference of American life...