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...notice of established corporations. Companies with large investments in genetic research range from chemical firms like Du Pont and Monsanto to oil giants, including Exxon and Chevron. The most active players are the pharmaceutical houses, which have been feverishly striking alliances with the biotech companies. A recent licensing agreement allows Johnson & Johnson to sell products developed by Amgen of Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...wanted to boost productivity by reducing job categories from some 500 to half a dozen, thus requiring employees to perform a wider variety of tasks. The U.A.W. rebuffed that concept, but it acquiesced on another issue. The union agreed to a three-year contract instead of the two-year agreement it had proposed. The U.A.W. had aimed for the shorter term because its Ford and G.M. contracts will expire in 1987, and the union wanted to bargain with all three automakers at once, a strategy that tends to give labor a stronger hand...
...only did Gorbachev repeat Moscow's line that there could be no agreement on reducing offensive nuclear weapons without an accompanying ban on Star Wars development, but he appeared to retreat from what leniency he had previously displayed. In an August interview with TIME, Gorbachev had hinted that he might accept some SDI research, since laboratory activities cannot be verified anyway. But last week, said one American, Gorbachev seemed to be insisting on a "complete ban on every activity in any way related to strategic defense...
...rebuttal. Commented Shultz: "He is accustomed to interrupting and expressing a view. So, when in Moscow, do as those in Moscow do. We interrupted too." It seemed to be "a shouting match," suggested one reporter. Not quite, said Shultz, just a "frank argument." But he left Moscow with no agreement even over whether the President and Gorbachev should issue a joint communiqué at the end of the summit meeting. The Soviets have proposed one, but Shultz's team answered in effect: Let's wait and see how the talks...
Thus in the White House view, Reagan can claim some success from a summit that results in no more than a vigorous argument ending in an agreement to continue negotiations on a variety of subjects at various levels. That would satisfy U.S. public opinion, says one adviser: "People think we ought to talk to the Soviets, ought to talk to them more than we do, but they do not trust the Soviets much...