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Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams, who oversees the rulemaking, said he wants to meet media concerns while assuring U.S. commanders that "nothing will be reported that will jeopardize the success of your mission." He rejected the urging of Andrew Glass, Washington bureau chief of Cox Newspapers, and others that the Pentagon list security-related taboos and count on the honor and patriotism of journalists -- reinforced by the military's legitimate accreditation powers -- to ensure compliance. At week's end Williams promised instead to offer still more proposals this week, only a few days before they may begin to have real...
...served for 14 years at the Wall Street Journal before coming to TIME in 1969. Since then he has written four Man of the Year cover stories and 91 other covers on subjects ranging from Henry Ford to gun control and from the future of capitalism to Pete Rose's gambling problems. In September, George moved to the World section, where he writes on such subjects as the gulf crisis and this week's sudden turn of events on the Soviet political scene...
...referendum that froze property taxes at 1% of assessed value, depleted county treasuries, leaving the state to pick up the bills for things like schools and welfare services. Now California faces a $1.5 billion budget gap that is expected to swell to $6.5 billion by 1994. Incoming Governor Pete Wilson is refusing to rule out the possibility of higher taxes. But he also wants more freedom from constraints imposed by the state constitution and voter initiatives and laws that earmark much of the budget in advance for such purposes as education...
Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams stirred yet another accounting storm last week by declaring that as of Nov. 29, five allies that had agreed to kick in $6.7 billion in cash and kind by Dec. 31 had so far ponied up only $3.6 billion. Two-thirds of that came from Kuwait, which had promised $2.5 billion and paid exactly that much. (Critics nonetheless point out that the Kuwaiti financial empire is worth an estimated $100 billion.) By Williams' figures, Japan had pledged $2 billion but had paid only $476 million; Germany had paid a mere $337 million of a promised...
RoboDeer is the pet creation of Pete McCuskey, owner of Mountain Security Specialties, who watched hours of deer videos to learn and duplicate genuine buck motions. "We strove for the most natural movement," he boasts...