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Last week the program came under close scrutiny by two high-level groups on Capitol Hill, and it was found wanting. The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment released an extremely negative report warning that a comprehensive antiballistic-missile system was so unpromising "that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy." At the same time, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee subjected five Administration witnesses, including the President's science adviser, George Keyworth, and the newly designated director of the program, Lieut. General James Abrahamson, to withering skepticism. Among the doubters were moderates like John...
...matters." Nonetheless, a leading former investment banker argues that even more needs to be done. Says he: "Questions should be asked about compensation at all levels. Shareholders should insist that compensation committees be composed of outside directors free to make comparisons, use consultants and make independent judgments." If high-level executive salaries keep rising steeply, more people will be asking those million-dollar questions more loudly. -By Stephen Koepp Reported by Paul A. Witteman/Detroit and Adam Zagorin/New York
This kind of double standard has become especially glaring ever since the government launched an unprecedentedly severe crackdown on crime last summer. Although 6,000 Chinese have been executed, high-level party leaders continue to escape prosecution, let alone imprisonment. "Is everybody really equal under the law?" asked the People's Daily. Earlier this year, the paper published the shocking story of Duan Yuanlai, former director of the Changde City Tobacco Plant. In 1969 he was charged with murder. A witness's false evidence won his acquittal. In 1978 he was charged with rape, but no action was taken when...
Gorbachev, trained in both agriculture and law, was not elected a voting member of the Politburo until 1980. During Andropov's brief time in power, Gorbachev was put in charge of a high-level committee, studying ways to improve the economy. Unusually well traveled for a Soviet leader, he has been to Canada, France and West Germany. His foreign hosts have found him to be open and in formed. Gorbachev's name was mentioned in the succession to Andropov, but the Politburo's veterans presumably thought the moment was not yet ripe for the shift to someone...
Part of this deterrence strategy is periodically to demonstrate the Washington-Beijing entente by high-level visits between the two countries. The reported existence of a joint intelligence facility in Northwest China to monitor. Soviet advanced weapons tests also sends a message to Moscow...