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...most expensive aircraft programs in history, now slated at $40 billion. To the legislators, the $1.3 billion in start-up money no doubt looked piddling. The cost of completing the five systems over the next decade: an estimated $180 billion. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/Washington
Walker was allegedly following KGB instructions at the time of his arrest. According to testimony at Arthur Walker's trial, FBI agents learned from telephone wiretaps that John was going to make a drop last May 19. They trailed his van by car and helicopter as it wound through the back roads of Maryland, eventually stopping several times at the same remote spot. When Walker finally left the vicinity, agents tramped through the woods, kicking smelly garbage bags, until they came across what one called "a classic type of Soviet drop site." It was a log between two trees marked...
...most damaging evidence came from the Greenpeace employees. They reported seeing a van pick up a diver near the dock a few hours before the explosions. The vehicle was traced to Alain-Jacques and Sophie-Claire Turenge, a French-speaking couple who claimed to be on their honeymoon. But a passport check revealed that the couple's Swiss papers were false. VSD, which has a reputation for political muckraking, reported that Sophie-Claire was actually a captain in the French secret service. The Turenges have been charged in New Zealand with murder, arson and conspiracy...
...takeover attempts by Ted Turner and a right-wing group called Fairness in Media, says he was only trying to protect the news division from possible meddling by ideologues and corporate raiders. Yet some CBS staffers contend that Hewitt was implicitly taking a swipe at the team of Van Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group, and Edward Joyce, president of CBS News. Though Hewitt denies that Sauter and Joyce were his targets, many CBS employees blame the duo for low morale within the division. At the same time, an internal struggle is being waged over...
...Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship...