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...congressional ruckus was symptomatic of a rising climate in Washington of suspicion and concern about the Reagan Administration's tactics in dealing with Nicaragua. The Administration has long charged the Sandinista regime with funneling arms to and fomenting revolution in neighboring El Salvador at the behest of Cuba and the Soviet Union. The White House has continuously vowed to halt that activity by any means possible. Among those means has been backing the contras, on the grounds that their function has been to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua...
...system, called the Vista, was developed by Scitex Corp. Ltd. of Herzlia, Israel, at the behest of TIME Operations Director Gérard Leliévre, and is the only such machine in the world. "We were seeking a kind of missing link between our computerized systems for processing copy and for preparing and transmitting completed pages," explains Leliévre. "Without electronic technology, the Art Department could have been left behind...
This new requirement, which was inserted into the U.S. proposal last fall largely at the behest of the Pentagon, is intended to restrict Soviet strength by still another measure: ballistic missile "throw weight," the cumulative power to hurtle megatons of destruction at targets thousands of miles away in a matter of minutes. Because they have invested so heavily in large land-based ballistic missiles, the Soviets have a 3-to-1 advantage over the U.S. in throw weight. In his Eureka speech, Reagan said that in some undefined second phase of the START talks he would seek to eliminate that...
What looks and sounds like a cult indoctrination is in fact a "training session" for employees of Japanese companies. They were at Ise last month at the behest of their employers to learn team spirit, feel team achievement and, in so doing, perhaps become better, more productive workers. Says Ise Training Center Director Yasuo Nakayama: "We want them to suffer. We want them to feel pain. But we also want them to enjoy, to sing and dance. We want them to empty out their old selves and become new people...
...widely distributed the drug in Third World countries. Despite its popularity overseas, however, Depo-Provera is not approved as a contraceptive in the U.S. Reason: the Food and Drug Administration fears that not enough is known about the drug's long-term side effects. Last week, at the behest of the Upjohn Co., which developed and markets the drug, a special FDA-appointed panel conducted a five-day hearing to see if Depo-Provera should finally be made available to American women...