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Monitor Archive for April 24, 1986
Government awards key space-plane contracts
A desk apart
WORTH NOTING ON TV
East-West `battle of the drawing boards'. US holds R&D edge, but quality of Soviet weapons is improving
in the time of tulips
Europe gets tough on Libya; may do more at summit. Europeans seek to avert crisis with US as own attitudes on terrorism harden
Lockheed C-5 transport once again tries to edge out its competition by a nose
Is it really a depression?
Trade union opposition to Duarte grows. Concern over economy rises among many Salvadorean unions
Don't worry--pray!
Novel of POW in wartime Japan cautions against ignoring history
NASA's problems with management. Tales of waste and fraud mask larger issue of honest budgets
Order expected in Libya as long as Qaddafi is leader. But if he is ousted or killed, chaos could follow, analysts say
Oxford Hills as River City
New York and Kansas lawmakers square off over Air Force jet-trainer project
Launching a computer
Cities bowing to the public for arts funds
High-scoring Michael Jordan's basketball show; dud of a dive
Chemical weapons and arms control
N. Ireland Protestants' new tactic. Will use civil disobedience to oppose Anglo-Irish accord
NATO: for defense against Moscow, not Tripoli
`Professor' Moynihan conducts class with would-be politicians. He pounds out lessons from LaRouche and Stockman at podium
Aerospace lobbists expected to increase their activity this year. Election, budget cuts, Pentagon reform efforts seen as catalysts
Some comparisons with the Great Depression
Argentina's Alfons'in: Can he make democracy work?
Industry's growth rate is starting to level. Certain pockets of high-tech weapons may buck the trend
Japanese companies bid on nation's FSX jet-fighter program. Results could affect Japan's competitive position
Trying to find a stopper for America's overflowing dairies. It's causing lots of hoopla with cattlemen and humane societies
Can you spare a chain saw? A bale of hay? Give to a needy park
To many campus scientists, SDI means money to expand projects under way. `Star wars' cash allows Cecil Alford to finish computer he designed
Call for early vote means another trip to the polls for Spaniards
The method of the rabbis applied to literary criticism
China's nuclear power industry: label it `made in China'. High cost of foreign technology forces Peking to scale back on imports
End to S. Africa `pass laws' tests climate for black-white dialogue
US-Libyan crisis -- Moscow keeps its distance
Free movement in S. Africa
Vanishing wildflowers
Messiaen tableaux in US premi`eres
Bonn sees no need to step on the gas
The summit in Tokyo -- putting economic issues first
Air Force peers into future; sees `smart' helmets, radar in space