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...Poland crisis, and the desire for Peking's cooperation in the anti-Soviet propaganda drive, provided an opportunity for these advisers to convince the President that he should deny Taiwan's request for the more sophisticated plane. To placate Taiwan's supporters, conspicuously Reagan himself, the memo also suggested selling Harpoon missiles and rescue helicopters to the Taipei government. Reagan approved the mission last Thursday at a meeting of his top national security advisers. The major proponent of selling advanced jets to Taiwan, Richard Allen, was no longer sitting in the National Security Adviser's chair...
Federal investigators also failed to pass along all the information they had concerning allegations that Donovan's construction firm had cozy relations with a Mafia-dominated subcontractor. The FBI did give the Hatch Committee a 19-page memo about various claims that Schiavone had done business with racketeers, but contended that it could not determine whether the charges were true or false. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department informed the committee that federal agents had been bugging the offices and tapping the telephones of one such mobster, William Masselli, for seven months before Donovan's confirmation. What...
...commercial share of sales to shrink due to slowing air traffic and a rising backlog of government orders. The company's military hardware includes Harpoon antiship missiles and F-15 Eagle jet fighters. But McDonnell Douglas will not be dropping out of commercial aviation. It has signed a memo of understanding with Fokker aircraft of The Netherlands to study the possibility of a new 150-passenger jet that would compete with...
...Grants, which help finance private construction in inner cities. He was able to save the program, which is popular with many mayors. Pierce last week sent to the White House a much stronger appeal against further cutbacks in urban programs. But he toned down the harsh language in the memo, drafted by his staff, that warned of potential "rent strikes, riots and vandalism...
...study-which bears the revealing title "Cadres of the Church and Legal Measures to Curtail Their Activities"-appear in the current issue of the human rights journal RCDA: Religion in Communist Dominated Areas. Predictably, Moscow denies the document's authenticity. Claiming never to have seen the memo, Soviet Religious Affairs Spokesman Yuri Smirnov told TIME that it is the work of "enemies" who are "trying to turn the church into a political foe of the state." Said Smirnov: "There is government control of the clergy only to the extent that any citizen is under control " But to Western observers...