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Sanders' title will be executive vice president for science and administration, and he will be the second-in-command of Squibb International's largest division, E.R. Squibb and Sons pharmaceuticals Rabin said...
...results include: The XM-1 tank, which costs, in constant dollars, seven times as much as the Sherman tank of World War II, yet whose turbine engines cannot tolerate dust; the command-control-communications-intelligence network, designed to control military maeuvers from a central point, which works, under ideal conditions, 38 per cent of the time; the TOW missile, launched by a soldier, which demands that he stand absolutely still in the middle of a battlefield for ten seconds while guiding his warhead at a far-off tank; missiles guided by t.v. cameras that destroy fenceposts as often as enemy...
Only after performing that dizzying pirouette from dogma to moderation did the Communists finally get their four portfolios. By far the most important belonged to Charles Fiterman, 47, the party's second-in-command. Named Transportation Minister, he also became a Minister of State, one of the five highest ranking Cabinet officers. Other new ministers arrived at the Elysée in sleek, gray, chauffeur-driven Citroëns, but Fiterman rolled up behind the wheel of his own tiny brown Renault-with a team of TV reporters huddled in back. Interviewed after his appointment, Fiterman bristled at suggestions...
...described his return to health as a "medical miracle." Certainly there was plenty of the old zip when he urged Congress to get moving on his budget and tax-cut bills (see following story). But when the questions were about foreign policy-as 15 of 25 were-the Commander in Chief was less clearly in command. Reported TIME White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett: "His tone was hesitant. He groped for words, even for ideas; indeed, he seemed less like a President and more like the error-prone candidate Reagan of early...
...prepared. They replied in perfect Arabic, apparently convincing the ground spotters that the sighting was either Jordanian or Saudi aircraft. As the flight went on, the Israelis were aided by the fact that the surrounding Arab countries have failed to establish an integrated air defense command. Thus the Jordanians did not pass on the sighting either to Saudi Arabia or to Iraq...