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When Volcker left the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to accept the chairmanship, he also accepted a 45 percent pay cut. He now earns $67,000 yearly--one-tenth the salary he could command in the private sector, bankers say--and has family has shouldered significant sacrifices...
...World War II B-24 pilot, Pace flew 39 missions. After his plane was hit on a sortie, he bailed out and then spent nine months as a prisoner of the Germans. Following the war, he rose to colonel in the Air Force Materiel Command. He retired in 1954 to join TRW, where he has been ever since, working in the company's aerospace and automotive operations...
Spying directed at finding out the enemy's order of battle is no longer necessary -- it is all set out for the Soviet high command to read in the military balance sheets published by organizations such as Jane's and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and in Flight International magazine and the International Defense Review. Even knowing the strategic plans of NATO for resisting a Soviet invasion across the north German plain is not all that important. What really interests the Soviets is such things as clues to laser components in systems for navigating nuclear submarines underwater, the guidance...
...unit is dominated by Maronite Christians with close ties to the 6,000-member Christian militia called the Lebanese Forces. Intelligence sources in Washington speculate that agents of the Deuxieme Bureau, possibly acting on their own, hired outsiders to carry out the car bombing. The Lebanese Army high command flatly denied any official involvement in the attack. As for the CIA , it insisted that it had not trained the agents involved in the bombing...
Syrian determination to impose a settlement of the continuing civil war in Lebanon was also in evidence last week. Under intense pressure from Damascus, the Lebanese Forces, a 6,000-strong Christian militia, replaced its commander, Samir Geagea, with Elias Hobeika. Geagea had instigated a revolt last March against President Amin Gemayel, accusing him of doing Syria's bidding. Geagea's downfall was marked by intense fighting in Beirut along the "green line" dividing the Christian and the predominantly Muslim sectors. Hobeika is the man who led the Phalangists into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps south of Beirut...