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NO C OMMENT Frontiers of Free Enterprise The New York Times reports business is booming in $60,000 stretch limousines that come equipped with color television, video cassette recorder, cellular...
...Not to Worry The Electronics Systems Division of IRT Corporation, a San Diego firm, is marketing "a newly developed High Speed Hybrid Nuclear Event Detector—the HSN-3000—to circumvent the prompt radiation hazards resulting from a nuclear weapon detonation...
...Cruel and Unusual Punishment Robert Sanger, a Raytheon executive convicted in a Los Angeles court of accepting $237,000 in bribes, was sentenced to 5,000 hours of community service—which he will work off as a golf instructor...
...I know what's ethical and what isn't, and there is nothing unethical about this...
...Whether the technology will work or how much it will cost—these are peripheral arguments...
...Three of the plane's eight missiles are still missing but probably will not explode, officials said...
...Just the Place to Rest After a Long March In Toronto, Skymarkplace Condominiums runs newspaper ads featuring the face of Mao Zhedong and the headline, He Would Have Loved Our Communal Leisure Centre...
...More Good News United Press International report from Anchorage, Alaska: "The Air Force says it has recovered five armed missiles sticking out of the mud on the Yukon River near the site of an F-15A fighter crash in June...
...The entire car is bullet- and bombproof...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...But the demonstrators left quietly when the government refused to meet with them on grounds that it would not "negotiate with terrorists...
...We will organize the hordes of Asia...
...as well as a tracking system which alerts outside personnel and allows them to establish your location at all times...
...How to Tell a Terrorist More than 100 protesters occupied the Metropolitan Cathedral in Guatemala City to demand information about 775 missing relatives believed to have been kidnapped by the armed forces...
...Hang the Expense From a Washington Post news story: "I don't think the American public wants to be bothered with the what, when, and how of lasers in space and things like that," says Rick Sellers, executive director of the Coalition for the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...President Reagan recently used a quotation that he ascribed to Lenin: 'We will take Eastern Europe...
...It's the Thought that Counts From an article by David K. Shipler in The New York Times Magazine: "Important national perceptions can be shaped by a well-turned phrase or dramatic image, even when the underlying facts are in doubt...
...it will fall into our outstretched hands like overripe fruit.' It turned out to be a phony, contained in a 1958 book by Robert Welch of the John Birch Society...
...And then we will move into Latin America and we won't have to take the United States...
...Perfectly Clear President Reagan, as quoted in a White House press conference transcript: "My concept of the strategic defense system has been one that, if and when we finally achieve what our goal is, and that is a weapon that is effective against incoming missiles, not a weapon system that is effective against incoming weapons, missiles...
...Looks and sounds like the real thing...
...Describing the Soviet intentions, for example...
...NO C OMMENT Frontiers of Free Enterprise The New York Times reports business is booming in $60,000 stretch limousines that come equipped with color television, video cassette recorder, cellular telephone, and well-stocked bar...
...It costs $140,000 (options additional...
...Games People Play For only $5.95 (plus postage and handling), American Family of Huntington, New York, will send you a Commando Water Gun—"a high-powered submachine gun, over one foot long, with terrific range and accuracy...
...The Final Authority Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense, explaining why it was perfectly all right for him to appear in a television commercial for computers made by Honeywell, a leading military contractor: "I'm the former chairman of the Ethics Committee...
...Other options [include] a remote-control ignition starter to detonate connected explosives without injury to passengers and driver, tear gas and oil slick emission systems to deter attackers or vehicles in pursuit, and more...
...assuredly one of the most prestigious automobiles you can own...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...According to one supplier, "I can't think of anything else we need to accommodate a client except maybe a hot tub...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Paging James Bond From the catalog of Perquisites, a San Francisco mail-order house: "The Mercedes Supercar...
...The phone has bug-detectors and a scrambler built in...
...The units sell for $166,400 and up...
Vol. 50 • January 1986 • No. 1
