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- Jan. 18, 1993: The Latest Triumph of Russian Science
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 18, 1993 Fighting Back: Spouse Abuse
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <p>By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT GREGORY
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- <p>The Latest Triumph of Russian Science
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- <p> The threat of speeding tickets has spurred the swift
- development of RADAR-EVASION technology--and not just in
- car-crazed countries like the U.S. and Japan. The
- military-communications journal Signal reports that at a
- military laboratory northeast of Moscow, scientists are
- conducting a new kind of applied research: painting their
- automobiles with the stealth coatings designed to protect
- Russia's high-performance aircraft from detection by radar.
- Invisible to radar guns, the lab docs expect to zip along the
- roads ticket-free.
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- <p>On the Naughty List
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- <p> While Casper Weinberger and five other suspects in the
- Iran-contra affair got pardons for Christmas, the Santa in the
- White House was not so generous to everyone. CLARK CLIFFORD, 85,
- the onetime Defense Secretary indicted for helping the Bank of
- Credit & Commerce International secretly buy two U.S. banks,
- received coal in his stocking. He was up for consideration, but
- counsel C. Boyden Gray recommended against a pardon, and Bush
- agreed. Reason: Clifford's indictment suggests he reaped a
- bundle from his B.C.C.I. connection.
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- <p>Exclusive, Members Only, Sort Of...
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- <p> It doesn't always pay to plan ahead. Back in August the
- Clinton for President Committee rewarded faithful donors with
- "CLINTON TEAM" lapel pins, individually numbered. The pin and
- number would supposedly serve as a security pass to a "members
- only" Inaugural victory celebration. About 115,000 folks donated
- $13 million, and many of them got psyched up for the big party.
- But the promise was forgotten. After complaints started coming
- in, invites were finally sent out to the special event: the
- opening ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. It's so exclusive
- that it's only open to the public.
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- <p>Here's One That's Going Well, Bill
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- <p> George Bush will bequeath Bill Clinton messes in Bosnia,
- Iraq and Somalia, but the outgoing President hopes to have one
- situation pretty well cleaned up. Before leaving office, he may
- be able to lift the long-standing economic embargo against
- VIETNAM. Behind-the-scenes negotiations are under way, and
- Vietnam has already made commitments on some remaining critical
- issues, including access to POW/MIA records. Dissolving the
- embargo would enable U.S. companies to compete in the Vietnamese
- market with the Japanese and Australians already doing business
- there. If Clinton wants it, diplomatic relations could resume
- within six months.
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- <p>Double Helix II
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- <p> JAMES WATSON, co-discoverer of DNA's structure, is hard at
- work on an autobiography, and the science world expects it to
- be every bit as frank and irreverent as The Double Helix, his
- acclaimed account of his Nobel-prizewinning work. In the sequel,
- there may be some choice words about Bernadine Healy, his former
- boss at the National Institutes of Health. Disputes between the
- two helped lead to Watson's resignation as head of the mammoth
- project to map the human genome.
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