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Once work crews depart, the village will be occupied by 28 Government employees and 142 technicians, maintenance workers and clerks hired by E-Systems Inc., a Dallas-based electronics company. Six of the contingent are women. Under a contract that will eventually amount to $10 million annually, shifts of E-System experts will operate three watch stations from which four sensor fields at either end of both passes will be automatically monitored...
...climate of suspicion is making it more difficult for U.S. firms to do business abroad. Lockheed's new chairman, Robert W. Haack, hastily flew to Ottawa last week to reassure Canadian officials that no bribes have been involved in Lockheed's efforts to win a $950 million contract for 18 Orion antisubmarine planes. Nonetheless, the Canadian government indicated it would take its time signing the deal, largely because of doubts about the company's ability to survive the spreading scandal. The U.S. Senate passed, 60 to 30, a bill greatly tightening Government controls on overseas sales...
...Contract talks between the University and the Harvard Employees' Representative Association (HUERA), which had been suspended since last December, reopened yesterday, and HUERA's president said the two sides "are coming closer" to a settlement...
Powers declined to comment yesterday on the progress of the negotiations. He said that the contract talks will not resume until March 16, due to scheduling difficulties for the union...
...union, whose members have been working without a contract since November 30, is demanding substantial wage increase, and curtailment of a University policy of hiring part-time non-union custodial help...