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Families have not completely seized the sitcom field this fall. ABC's Sledge Hammer!, about a trigger-happy cop who talks to his gun, is an earnest but lame attempt to satirize Dirty Harry-type heroes. CBS's Designing Women features a quartet of single friends in Atlanta who run a decorating business together, a sort of pre-mid-life Golden Girls. The show has a good cast (including Annie Potts and Dixie Carter) but an overload of formula gag writing ("Suzanne, if sex were fast food, there'd be an arch over your...
Some French feared last week that such tactics might trigger a backlash against all Arabs living in Paris. But most Parisians were more concerned about their safety. "I find it very worrying," said Agnes Cavroy, 26, an advertising-agency employee. "You are at the mercy of the bombs." Some far- right politicians talked guardedly about invoking Article 16 of the constitution, giving the President power to rule by decree during a national emergency. At the moment such a measure seems farfetched, but its very mention attested to the siege mentality that has seized Paris...
...chief economic adviser to President Ford, estimated the Dow would have to go down another 200 to 300 points to have a significant impact on the economy. If stock prices fell that far, executives might curb their companies' capital investment and consumers might reduce their spending enough to trigger a recession. But the stock market steadied last week, rising 3.93 points to close at 1762.65. Investors took in stride the "triple witching hour." On the third Friday of the last month of each quarter, contracts on stock options, stock index futures and stock index options all expire. In the past...
...reporting on the little-known incident last week, after having sifted through documents newly made available by the Freedom of Information Act, the Albuquerque Journal said conventional explosives used in the bomb's trigger did detonate but failed to set off a thermonuclear blast. A Defense Department official sought to put the best possible light on what could have been a calamity by saying the failure of the bomb to explode "confirms the efficacy of the safety devices...
...areas, which must now be interpreted in light of the Walker-Whitworth espionage conspiracy." There is a lingering fear, too, not mentioned in the court papers, that Whitworth or Walker may have installed in Navy communications what is known as a "trapdoor," a secret program that the Soviets could trigger to paralyze the system in a crisis...