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- Mar. 08, 1993: Winds of Change
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <p>By CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY
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- <p>Winds of Change
- </p>
- <p> The Pentagon is poised to do what a hurricane could not: permanently
- shut down HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE in Florida. In a report to
- be made public March 15, the Defense Department intends to recommend
- to Congress that Homestead Air Force Base be closed. Across
- the country, other communities await word on the fate of their
- military bases, but this closure will be a particularly bitter
- one. After Hurricane Andrew nearly destroyed the base last August,
- President Bush pledged that "we will rebuild Homestead Air Force
- Base." In the current budget-crunching climate, it seems unlikely
- that promise will be kept.
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- <p>5% of X = $1 Billion. Solve for X.
- </p>
- <p> And what is x? Just one of the most closely guarded secrets
- of the Central Intelligence Agency--the budget for its National
- Foreign Intelligence Program. And now the secret is out. In
- a letter to Senators before he left, outgoing spy chief ROBERT
- GATES urged them to reject a $1 billion cut in the program's
- budget. Senators described the $1 billion slash as a 5% cut.
- If 5% of the budget is $1 billion, the program's budget must
- be $20 billion. Intelligence officials, with a wink, confirm
- the figure. Basic math skills + common sense = government secrets
- revealed.
- </p>
- <p>Silence and Sainthood
- </p>
- <p> The possible canonization of POPE PIUS XII, which the Vatican
- has been investigating for over 25 years, is drawing fire from
- a Jewish leader. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal
- Center, says Pius XII (who reigned from 1939 to '58) was publicly
- silent during the Holocaust. Hier also says a letter he obtained
- from a Vatican official indicates that the nomination is moving
- forward. Father John Pawlikowski of the Catholic Theological
- Union in Chicago says outrage is premature: "The process is
- a long one, and any major decisions could be years away." Look
- for the issue to spark discussions between Catholics and Jews:
- the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a wire service that goes to more
- than 100 Jewish publications worldwide, will release a story
- on the issue this week.
- </p>
- <p>David Letterman, CBS (California Big Shot)
- </p>
- <p> To New Yorkers, DAVID LETTERMAN in Los Angeles is like Joey
- Buttafuoco in Paris. It just ain't right. But despite Letterman's
- decision to remain in the Big Apple, an inside source says a
- move to L.A. may have only been delayed. The latest scenario:
- Letterman will debut his new CBS show in August in New York
- City and take it out to L.A. for brief visits, and after about
- a year he'll decide which coast feels better. And what about
- the 4 million bucks CBS shelled out to buy New York's Ed Sullivan
- Theater for Dave? Says the source: "A small amount of money
- in the scheme of things."
- </p>
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- <p>Bad Vibes
- </p>
- <p> The hum started two years ago. Only some folks in Taos, New
- Mexico, could hear it. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Residents began to lose
- sleep, suffer headaches. Mmmmmmmm. The residents called upon
- their U.S. Representative, BILL RICHARDSON, to look into the
- mysterious vibration. His investigation, which is continuing,
- has uncovered three U.S. Air Force projects that could be behind
- the noise: a structure used to bounce radar waves, a low-flying
- airborne laser laboratory, and helicopters. Recently, Richardson
- wrote Defense Secretary Les Aspin asking him to "make the necessary
- changes" to end the problem.
- </p>
- <p>THE GREAT PRETENDER:
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- <p> Some have greatness thrust upon them. Others thrust themselves
- into great parties. Nobody crashes society bashes like New York
- nobody Richard Osterweil, a starving artist and coat checker
- featured in the recent film Painting the Town. As for future
- infiltrations, look for his face at:
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- <p> WOODY-MIA custody trial
- </p>
- <p> PAMELA HARRIMAN'S Washington parties
- </p>
- <p> Exclusive Oscar bash at West Hollywood's SPAGO
- </p>
- <p> AMY FISHER'S jail cell ("I know someone who knows her lawyer")
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