Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your review "Blood Relatives" [Aug. 9] you say that our brother Alexander Pasternak was a member of Stalin's secret police, the Cheka. As an architect who designed one lock of the Moscow-Volga Canal. Alexander was employed by the Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) in 1936. The NKVD not only controlled all construction projects, like the canal and the metro, but had also taken over the functions of the Cheka. Accordingly, the NKVD uniform that Alexander was obliged to wear carried unpleasant associations, associations he detested because he was afraid of one department being confused with another, more...
...wish to clarify two points in your story about Senate passage of legislation to reform the nation's immigration laws [Aug. 30]. Under the legislation, it will be illegal to hire anyone who entered the country illegally. However, businesses with three or fewer employees would not be required to maintain a record of a prospective employee's identification documents. Also, employers would be subject to fines only if it could be demonstrated that they knowingly hired an undocumented person. The prohibition that people who enter this nation illegally shall not be hired is the only way to stanch...
Regarding the appointment of Jack Greenberg to teach minority issues at Harvard, we are not protesting Greenberg's race [Aug. 23]. Black students and others are lobbying for desegregation of the virtually all-white faculty at Harvard Law. At issue is the rectitude of affirmative action as a remedy for racially exclusive hiring patterns. If Harvard and its defenders can convince the American people that affirmative action equals anti-white racism, then every affirmative action policy at any school or workplace is in jeopardy. If this issue has "no validity" to Jack Greenberg, what must be questioned...
...extradited. They will probably include political and military espionage, illegal possession of state secrets and fraud. Magistrates investigating yet another incident that rocked Italy have reason to suspect that Gelli played a behind-the-scenes role in the explosion of a terrorist bomb in the Bologna railroad station on Aug. 2, 1980. The bomb killed 85 people and injured another...
...first hint that IBM had a serious new security problem came in an Aug. 12 phone call to the company from Martin Alpert, president of Tecmar, Inc., an electronics firm in Cleveland. Alpert said that his company had been approached by IBM's Erdman with an offer of what appeared to be confidential information. IBM officials persuaded Alpert to play along with Erdman and covertly tape their negotiations. IBM Security Director Richard Mainey planned the ruse and equipped Alpert with a recorder...