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...following Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia. Other industrial countries, including Japan, are waiting for a U.S. lead before committing themselves to major trade and investment. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has served notice that it will drastically curtail the aid it has provided in the past, especially fertilizers, structural steel and critical oil supplies...
...Stealth bomber (price for each plane: $540 million), the company builds so- called smart weapons systems, guidance modules for MX missiles and other military hardware. After losing $80.5 million last year, the company cut costs by selling its Gulfstream IV corporate jet in January and its glass-and-steel headquarters tower in Century City, Calif., for $218 million in March. If congressional proposals to kill the $70 billion B-2 program prevail, some industry experts think Northrop's long-term survival will be in doubt...
...surface. A poll released this month on Czechoslovak television showed that 83% of respondents considered the environment the "first priority" for the new government. In Cracow, Poland, residents last month elected the first Green Party mayor of any large city in Europe and forced the local Nowa Huta steel mill to agree to shut down six of its most polluting chimneys and furnaces...
...sometimes polarized the nation, shifting attention from the issues to the rowdy behavior and unpopular politics -- Stalinists for Solidarity with the Viet Cong! -- of protesters. Since support for environmental protection spans the political spectrum, polarization should not plague Earth Day unless fringe groups seize the occasion to sabotage a steel mill or stage other "ecotage" attacks on perceived corporate villains. Earth Day's organizers more likely face the opposite problem: the possibility that the hype and the numbing array of events will cause people to throw up their hands and stay home...
Both Baghdad and the firm in Sheffield, England, that manufactured the steel casting claim it is part of a pipeline for an Iraqi petrochemical plant. But defense experts say the casting may be the cannon's barrel, which would be 131 ft. long with a 39-in. bore, weigh 140 tons and be capable of firing a 1-to-3- ton shell up to 900 miles -- within range of most Middle East capitals...