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...congenial dissenter, Roy Brooks, rose to speak. "Being against this," said the retired Army colonel, "is like being opposed to motherhood and apple pie. But it is pretty silly for us to be advising the country on foreign policy." Brooks was no longer smiling. "Those people who are pushing for it are the same people who argued for unilateral disarmament. They want us to roll over on our backs like a defeated dog and say everything will go on happily ever after." Bernard Friedelson, a businessman, was anything but defeatist in his rebuttal. Said he: "To reverse the trend toward...
...International is a victim of technological change. The 58-year-old firm was struggling as a manufacturer of old-fashioned duplicating machines in an age of Xerox copiers when Roy Ash, former head of Litton Industries and Budget Director in the Nixon Administration, took over in 1976 as chairman. Ash immediately began buying up companies that manufactured electronic office equipment and moved the company headquarters from Cleveland to Los Angeles. The new products, including word processors, copier devices and credit-card billing systems, soaked up millions of dollars in development costs, and AM International's profits fell sharply...
...lots of places around here," says Miner Roy Phillips of Neon, Ky., "those doghole mines are the only things you can make a living at. It's not greed, it's survival." Yet the manager of one huge Kentucky mine finds that trade-off untenable. Says he: "This isn't like mom-and-pop stores any more. If we continue to pretend that it is, the price will be paid in miners' lives...
...strategic reserve to be used in case of war. The tin was bought three decades ago for an average price of only $1.08 per Ib., and the General Services Administration in the past four months has sold 6,470 tons of it for up to $7.49 per Ib. Says Roy Markon, a GSA commissioner: "Why should we be worried about a contrived shortage? It is of great benefit to our sales program and good for the taxpayer...
...Colby reported without disagreement that according to Damascus radio, Israel had launched the attack. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger commented that while Syria's reputation for veracity was not high, it would be the first time in 20 years that Israel had not started a Mideast war. Only Alfred L. (Roy) Atherton, Sisco's deputy, challenged the consensus: "This is the last day in the year when they would have started something. And there were no signs...