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...Khomeini's fanatical army breaks through the Iraqi lines and captures Basra, the reverberations will shake all of Western Europe and Japan. According to one highly placed Western diplomatic source, "The fall of Basra would bring the crash of the Frankfurt stock market. Every blue-chip company in West Germany has a big stake here. They have close to $5 billion invested in development projects in Iraq." The Japanese also have $5 billion staked on Saddam's survival. France is not far behind. The U.S. is in for just under $ 1 billion...
...integrity ends up taking sides at some point. You can't help but sympathize with the science fiction fan. Harold who falls for Suzi Scarsdale and does all of her physics homework, only to be scorned as "too serious" and left alone with his calculator while Suzi lets some Chip of Chuck sweep her away to an evening of mystery and adventure...
...about the time that news of the White House deliberations appeared in the American press, the Japanese government warned its chip manufacturers to make sure that their marketing practices in the U.S. were beyond reproach. Says Atsuyoshi Ouchi, senior executive vice president of Nippon Electric: "We were told that we had to be particularly careful about the possibility of being slapped with charges of dumping...
Ironically, the outcome of the semiconductor contest could be affected by two giant American companies that have never sold a chip: IBM and the Western Electric unit of AT&T. They make millions of chips, but use them internally to build such finished products as computers and telephone switching equipment. IBM produces more 64K RAM chips than all the world's semiconductor firms combined. The company's manufacturing process for the 64K achieves a phenomenal 60% yield of perfect chips, compared with a maximum of 50% claimed by the Japanese...
...have exceptionally skilled semiconductor scientists. In a recent speech IBM President John Opel declared: "We have the lead in technology, and we intend to keep it." IBM may soon mass-produce a 288K RAM memory chip, which can store 294,912 bits of information...