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...been mistakenly detained. The rest he divides evenly between "ordinary criminals" and those who are "almost indescribably dangerous." The challenge, of course, is determining which are which. Associate Attorney General Rudolph Guiliani says that the only way to sift through the cases is to listen to the tape recordings of the initial interviews between the refugees and INS officers made last year-a time-consuming process-and that Shoob is rushing the Government. Shoob claims he is only forcing the sluggish INS to free those for whom the Government cannot make a convincing argument for continued detention. For the innocents...
Voyager came closest to Saturn just before the 1½-hour period when the spacecraft was behind the planet, totally cut off from the earth. But the semi-intelligent machine continued operations under the command of its preprogrammed computers, taking pictures, performing experiments and storing the information on tape. Not until Voyager 2 emerged from behind Saturn and again began radioing back data did scientists learn that something had gone wrong. As Voyager 2 crossed the rings, the playback showed, the cameras began missing their targets. Somehow the spacecraft's movable "scan platform," which acts as an aiming mechanism...
Japan's Sony Corp. has stunned the world with an array of products ranging from the first pocket-size FM radio and the first portable videotape recorder to tummy TVs and the Walkman tape player. Last week Sony Chairman Akio Morita, 60, showed off his latest marvel: the Mavica, a still camera that looks and feels like a conventional 35-mm camera but takes color pictures without film. Morita grandly called the camera the greatest innovation in photography since Louis Daguerre invented the silvered copper plate print...
Some carried tape measures, trowels, putty knives, melon ballers and plant misters. Mostly, the 1,500 people who turned out on Steep Hill Beach in Ipswich, Mass., for the eighth annual sand castle competition were armed with buckets and shovels-the basic tools for molding an uncooperative medium into an image of their fantasies. Among the sculptures were a baby elephant, a dragon and a splendid 14-ft lobster, spray-painted red and accompanied by "melted butter." Six Cambridge artists fashioned the crustacean, and called it Lobster Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled...
...Germany. No mile event had been scheduled-its metric near equivalent, the 1,500-meter run, was on the Koblenz menu-but meet organizers quickly obliged Ovett's request and lengthened the finish line by the required 120 yds. As good as his word, Ovett flashed across the tape in 3 min. 48.40 sec. His feat set another record: shortest time needed to break a new mile record...