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...minorities would get a fair share of the policymaking jobs in his Administration. As of last Friday, 130 of the positions had been filled, one-third of the total, but only two of them by blacks, one being the personnel officer who is supposed to recruit nonwhites for high-level Administration jobs. In addition, only 15 of the posts went to women...
...gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name of Sir Olaf McConnochie - and the admirable Alyss. Though Davey's novels tend to be more whosaidits than whodunits, Treasury offers alarums and excursions aplenty...
Last week the Yamal gas reserves were the subject of intense negotiations in Paris, Brussels and The Hague, and of high-level worries in Washington. The Soviet Union has proposed building a natural-gas pipeline from the remote Siberian peninsula, 3,000 miles across the heart of Central Russia to Western Europe. Its partners in the project are to be the major Continental countries. They will lend the Soviets $10 billion to $15 billion to cover the entire construction cost of the project, and provide their best technology and equipment in return for a supply of 40 billion cubic meters...
Finally, after more than 14 months of false starts and faded hopes, the breakthrough that could end America's agonizing-and humiliating-hostage crisis came, as a dramatic climax to a pressure-packed week of high-level international bargaining. The evidence that the end was at hand could not have been more tangible: at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, which was suddenly closed to routine air traffic, sat a Boeing 707 Algerian airliner, poised to fly the 52 Americans to freedom...
...successful New York businessman in his 60s who was being considered for a high-level job in the Administration. When he was told about the new requirements for detailed financial disclosure, he withdrew his name, saying: "Nobody knows how wealthy I am! I don't even want my children to know...