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...being named the first female chief of a major police force in the U.S. Last week she resigned as head of the Portland police bureau, after an investigating commission called for her ouster, charging that "defects of leadership" had irretrievably cost her the confidence of her 760-member command...
...defendant, said Federal Prosecutor John Douglass, was nothing short of a walking "gold mine" of U.S. intelligence capabilities. He knew how the U.S. was able to intercept the Soviet Union's "command and control" communications, which contained military instructions from "the highest level" of the Kremlin to the next echelon of authority, according to the defendant's former supervisor. He was familiar with a top-secret program for processing encoded Soviet messages and aware that it was being given an "upgraded capability" that would maintain its usefulness into the 1990s. He was the author of a 60-page "encyclopedia...
...that began last September seemed to have sputtered as of April 21, when the Dow Jones industrial average hit a peak at 1855.90. Between then and May 19, the Dow plunged 97.72 points, to 1758.18, losing more than 5% of its value. But when Wall Streeters returned to their command posts, computer terminals and telephone consoles after the Memorial Day hiatus, they happily resumed some unfinished business: a dizzying bull- market comeback...
...born Two Women With 'X's' inTheir Names, a scintillating two-man showconsisting of numerous improvised sketches woventightly into one of the finest original plays inrecent memory at Harvard. The show, the crowningjewel of two astonishing undergraduate theatricalcareers, sold-out four command performances in theEx last month and returns for a farewell at 7:30and 10:00 p.m. tonight...
...Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher, and AT&T, the leading provider of long-distance telephone service, last week named new chief executive officers. The change in command at Ma Bell had been anticipated, but the timing of the Gannett switch came as a surprise...