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...something that gave him a chill. Buried near Sector 0, the disk's innermost circle, was evidence that the glitch that had swallowed six months of Joselow's professional life was not a glitch at all but a deliberate act of sabotage. There, standing out amid a stream of random letters and numbers, was the name and phone number of a Pakistani computer store and a message that read, in part: WELCOME TO THE DUNGEON . . . CONTACT US FOR VACCINATION...
...Random House; 278 pages...
...Catholic Ardoyne district of Belfast, police last week confiscated 200 pounds of explosives and predicted that the I.R.A. was planning a "horrific remainder to 1988." That followed the arrests in Waldfeucht, West Germany, of two I.R.A. suspects by a border guard who discovered weapons in their car during a random search. Waldfeucht is only 16 miles from Rheindalen, headquarters for the 67,000 British troops stationed in the Federal Republic...
Italy decreed last week that drunk drivers will face the loss of their licenses and could be fined up to $350 and sentenced to a month in prison. In Paris an attempt to set up random police checks was abandoned some years ago, after pressure from city restaurateurs. In Britain, where the fatality figures (2.5 per 10,000 vehicles) are among Europe's lowest, 20% of road deaths are caused by intoxicated drivers. The government is now considering police requests for "discretionary testing" and is debating stiffer penalties...
...Women for America has asked all MCA stockholders to sell the company's stock on Sept. 15. And Mother Angelica, a nun who runs the nation's largest Catholic cable network, is calling on protesters to drive with their lights on on Aug. 22. Both dates were picked at random when the opening was still set for September...