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...suddenly rushed off to Mexico. The Rosenbergs clearly recruited Brother-in-Law David Greenglass. As one of the Government's star witnesses, Greenglass testified that while serving as an Army technician at Los Alamos, N. Mex., he had given Julius rough sketches of the implosion device used to trigger the atomic bomb...
...assumption in Washington has been that only when Moscow accepts the reality of new missiles in Western Europe will it negotiate seriously at the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) talks in Geneva. The Administration anticipates that deployment will trigger Soviet concessions and restore allied self-confidence. But what if deployment leads to an unhappier result, triggering instead an escalation in Soviet obstreperousness and, consequently, in West European nervousness...
American officials do, however, attempt to manage the Colorado, and in the process have been forced to trigger much of the flooding. Engineers at the Glen Canyon and Parker dams have had to open their floodgates wider than ever before. Last winter's Rocky Mountain snowpack was up to three times its usual thickness, and since Memorial Day it has been melting unusually fast. Southwesterners blame Bureau of Reclamation dam managers for not releasing more of the runoff earlier. Says William Claypool of Needles, Calif.: "Anyone over the age of eight who watched TV this winter should have known...
...praising Agent 007 in a filmed appearance on a British TV special, James Bond, The First 21 Years. The President did not seem troubled by the fact that Ian Fleming's superspy also has a reputation for booze (vodka martinis, shaken not stirred), fast women and a quick trigger-not precisely dear-to-the-heartland pulpit pleasers. White House embarrassment did not develop, however, until a Washington, B.C., TV station, which had picked up the program, began using the President's words for 30-second promo spots. The program went on as scheduled, but before...
Volcker must be careful, though, because his actions will ripple through the world economy. Developing countries such as Mexico and Brazil are still staggering under their enormous foreign debt load. If U.S. interest rates rise enough to stall global economic growth, debtor nations could conceivably go into default and trigger a banking crisis. Says William Mason, who heads an investment advisory service in Los Angeles: "An aborted recovery would be not only a national disaster, but an international disaster as well. Volcker understands that...