IBM Ties With Steve Chen Firm to Build Faster Supercomputers
IBM will partner with Supercomputer Systems Inc led by Steve Chen to develop parallel supercomputers claimed to be 100 times faster than present models. IBM will fund the Eau Claire Wisconsin firm and share technical information to speed design under Chen.
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New York
Steve Chen
IBM
Supercomputer Systems Inc
Chen
Advanced
Cray Research Inc
Cray
International Business Machines Corp
Supercomputer Systems
Eau Claire
Wis
Chen, 44
Air Force to Reintroduce Leather Flight Jackets
Air Force crews will wear brown leather flight jackets again to boost esprit de corps. About 43,000 pilots navigators and enlisted air crew will receive a first stock of 53,000 jackets at an estimated cost of 7.4 million dollars. The Navy restored its jackets in 1983 after a six year gap. Air Force jackets disappeared after World War II.
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Washington
Air Force
Navy
Reagan Signs Foreign Relations Act
President Reagan signed the Foreign Relations Authorization Act granting over 8 billion dollars in spending to the State Department and agencies. The act rewrites parts of the 1952 McCarran Walter Act limiting entry based on political beliefs and associations. Chrysler Jeep Eagle recalls 64,500 Renault Alliance cars from 1983 due to emissions violations, with EPA specifying fixes to air fuel and sensor systems.
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Washington
State Department
Reagan
United States
Chrysler Corp
Jeep
Renault
American Motors Corp
AMC
Chrysler
Lawyer Argues U S Jurisdiction Over Hijacking Case
In Washington the defense for terrorist suspect Fawaz Younis contends U S courts have no jurisdiction since the 1985 Jordanian airliner hijacking involved a non American airline and no landing in the United States. Government lawyer Jennifer Gold asserts U S authority due to foreign commerce and United States bound passengers.
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Washington
Fawaz Younis
Francis D. Carter
U.S
United States
Jennifer Gold
Younis
Amal Group
Lebanon
Commuter Trains Collide During Evening Rush
Rescue crews pulled survivors from two head-on trains after a 6 30 p m collision at rush hour in Nova Iguacu Brazil. Two killed and 77 injured including 15 in critical condition. one train carried about 1600 passengers while the other was nearly empty.
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Brazil
Nova Iguacu
Rio de Janeiro
Helio Barros
U S and Soviet Space Progress Highlight Race
Soviet cosmonauts push toward docking with the Mir station as Yuri Romanenko’s 321 day orbit set a endurance record. Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov would relieve him while NASA moves to restore American crewed spaceflight after the 1986 Challenger disaster and earlier rocket problems.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Yuri Romanenko
Utah
U.S
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Mir Space Station
Tass
Vladimir Titov
Musa Manarov
Romanenko
Ireland Protestant Leader Killed By IRA Car Bomb
Belfast reports the IRA killed John McMichael a 39 year old Protestant paramilitary leader in a car bomb outside his Lisburn home. He chaired Ulster Defence Association policy and voice and his death could trigger reprisals and more violence during Christmas. Police say only McMichael was in the car.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
John McMichael
Lisburn
McMichael
Ulster Defense Association
Sri Lanka party chairman killed by Sinhalese extremists
Police say Harsha Abeywardene United National Party chairman and three companions were killed in Colombo by Sinhalese ultra nationalists riding a motorcycle. The attack comes days after the president vowed to wipe out such extremists amid a four year Tamil rebel war and a regional peace pact with India.
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Colombo
Sri Lanka
Harsha Abeywardene
United National Party
Abeywardene
Condi
People’s Liberation Front
India
Attorney Sought Pardon For North
The attorney for Oliver L. North urged a presidential pardon in a January meeting with David Abshire the Post reports. Abshire said Sullivan argued North was “a man trying to do his duty” but no pardon consideration was discussed.
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Washington
National Security Council
Oliver L. North
White House
North
Washington Post
Brendan V. Sullivan
David M. Abshire
Lawrence W. Walsh
Abshire
The
Post
Sullivan
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