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...militant Israeli nationalists drove into the Sinai to support the angry settlers. When Defense Minister Ezer Weizman visited the community in an effort to persuade the farmers to leave, he was spat upon and called a "traitor" and an "Egyptian agent." After Cairo turned down a last-minute Israeli request to let the farmers continue cultivating the field, unarmed Israeli soldiers tried to evict the settlers. They were met with flaming torches, chemical spray and a barrage of stones and vegetables...
Hospitals could keep a far sharper eye on costs. Says Duke University's William Anlyan: "You must have someone who is a rat and not a mouse on the hospital board?someone has to say no to a request for buying a $100,000 piece of equipment." If the Government and private insurers provided an incentive to hold down costs, the "rats" could force a much greater sharing of facilities. Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, for example, provides computerized electrocardiogram analysis for seven other hospitals in Michigan. When a heart patient checks into Crystal Falls Community Hospital in the Upper...
John Diebold, the noted computer consultant, who was asked by IBM to be a witness, gave the TIME conference "a peasant's view of what it is like to have the Justice Department's B-52s drop napalm on me." First, at Government request, he turned over 300,000 pages of documents from his company, the Diebold Group, relating to the computer industry. Said Diebold: "That is a minor ripple in the ocean of paper that has been delivered by IBM, but I wasn't even a party to the case!" Then he was tied up full...
...Government has never spelled out just how it wants to break up IBM to foster competition. Any "relief that the court eventually may grant must be based on up-to-date information. So last January-ironically on the tenth anniversary of the case-the Government made yet another discovery request for current information and IBM's plans for the future. IBM is resisting; it argues that this third round of discovery would bare its trade secrets, and further delay the trial...
Councilor David Wylie, who sponsored the resolution at the request of a representative of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, said yesterday the city "will not lose any money because of the resolution...