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- Mar. 22, 1993: Anarchy: The Final Frontier
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
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- <p>By CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY
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- <p>Anarchy: The Final Frontier
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- <p> As Russia struggles to hold together, its space program is
- falling apart. At the BAIKONUR COSMODROME in Kazakhstan--the
- Russian equivalent of the Kennedy Space Center--civilian
- workers have been looting equipment, crippling the facility's
- launch pad in the process. The Russian space program is also
- involved in a feud with the new Ukrainian state, which has its
- own space program. A Russian meteorological satellite was turned
- off in orbit, so Ukraine couldn't recover weather data from it.
- Some of the stolen Baikonur equipment has mysteriously
- resurfaced in Ukraine. Understandably, the disarray of Russia's
- once great space program has NASA officials worrying about
- scheduled joint U.S.-Russian manned spaceflights.
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- <p>Early Warning
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- <p> Israeli security officials concluded two years ago that
- the World Trade Center garage was vulnerable to a car bomb,
- according to Israeli sources. These security officials checked
- out the garage for Zim American Israeli Shipping Co., which is
- located in the Twin Towers and is a subsidiary of a partly
- state-owned Israeli company. Zim representatives publicly admit
- no knowledge of the security team's inspection.
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- <p>Read My Ships
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- <p> George Bush could soon discover that losing a presidential
- election can be a taxing experience. Clinton's budget proposes
- increasing fuel taxes on barge companies $1 per gal. (a 525%
- rise). Bush and former Cabinet Secretaries James Baker and
- Robert Mosbacher have all had lucrative investments in the same
- Houston barge company. Bush reported an $11,962 profit on his
- $31,000 stake in 1988 before he moved his investments into a
- blind trust. He is a private citizen now, so his current
- holdings, if any, are his business. But the tax could prove to
- be quite a parting gift. A Clinton adviser says with a smile
- that it's just a "coincidence."
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- <p>We Aren't the World
- </p>
- <p> United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- could be trying to loosen America's grip on power within the
- U.N. One new Under Secretary-General was scolded by
- Boutros-Ghali for choosing an American as his deputy. And when
- Bush appointee Dick Thornburgh left as U.N. Under
- Secretary-General of Administration and Management,
- Boutros-Ghali tried to take the influential position from
- America and give the U.S. a frilly public relations post
- instead. An American official in the U.N. complains that it's
- "a very clearly anti-American bent." However, with just one
- superpower left in the world, Boutros-Ghali may feel that a
- little bureaucratic kryptonite is exactly what is needed to
- maintain the U.N.'s equilibrium.
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- <p>America's Most Wanted
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- <p> The Army is looking for a few good men other than the ones
- it just let go, that is. The highly publicized round of
- military-base closings and cutbacks is making it hard for the
- Army to recruit, partly because many would-be candidates assume
- that the military isn't looking for new people. In fact, the
- military needs a steady influx of newcomers to maintain its
- vitality. Adapting to the reduced demand, the Army has scaled
- back its goal of recruiting 100% high school grads to 95%--and
- even that's proving tough to meet.
- </p>
- <p>Calling All Senators
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- <p> Bill Clinton asked Americans to answer the call--instead, they're placing calls. U.S. citizens are phoning their
- Senators at a rate more than twice that of last year. Figures
- from the office of the Senate sergeant at arms show that from
- Jan. 1 to Feb. 4 there were 4.2 million calls to the Senate this
- year, in contrast to 1.9 million during that same period in
- 1992.
- </p>
- <p>Revenge of the Tourists
- </p>
- <p> Last year 23 Japanese traveling abroad met crime-related
- deaths. This year Griptone, a Japanese travel-goods company, has
- opened a store in Osaka, Japan, for the safety-conscious
- Japanese tourist. Merchandise includes an attache case that
- gives thieves within 170 ft. a 40-volt electric shock, and
- safety vests ranging from ice-pick proof to bulletproof.
- Americans visiting Osaka from New York City might want to pick
- up a few Griptone products for when they get home.
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