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...report added fresh detail about Moscow's global intelligence vacuum cleaner. For instance, espionage allowed the Soviets to copy the "look-down, shoot-down" radar capability of the F-18, saving an estimated five years and $55 million in research. Moscow also pirated the design for a computer used in cruise missiles. But the Pentagon study itself pointed out that about 90% of the intellectual booty comes from open sources rather than spying. Weinberger proposed no new statutes or regulations to reduce the haul...
Nurse and parole agent, stenographer and highway-equipment cleaner, secretary and tree trimmer: advocates of "comparable worth" contend that the women and men in such disparate jobs require similar degrees of education, skill and responsibility, and should be paid equivalent wages. That argument was set back last week when a three-judge federal appeals court unanimously overturned the nation's first ruling in favor of comparable worth. The court decided that an employer could be ordered to use comparable-worth pay standards only in cases of proven discrimination...
Grouch, you say? Old crank? On the contrary, sympathy is due the vacuum- cleaner man. The world, and especially this country, has become a hard place for those not yet committed to the overhaul of the flesh, heart and lungs--and none of these were in a rougher spot last week than Skoko...
...however, the strict preservationists were indulged. The gilt is real gold leaf. Artisans worked 3,000 hours fixing up the large pictorial stained-glass window. The marble for the floors is from the same French quarry used by the station's builders. Indeed, to the modern eye, accustomed to cleaner colors and lines, the period hues and ornamental density of this main interior space may seem too authentic: the muddy green and stained-glass glow and riot of gold are, all together, extremely rich. The room's Gilded Age swank is gorgeous, not inspiring...
...mystery novel called Harvest Madness. Bigam knew that the chief had been moody lately, and a bit bored with the department he joined in 1978 and had run since 1982. Still, Bigam did not suspect suicide. Wiley's normally disheveled uniforms had been left at the dry cleaner. His apartment was spotless, and his manuscript for Harvest Madness was missing...