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...will emphasize efforts to design an American satellite killer to defend against the Soviet version. In September the Defense Department quietly awarded the $58.7 million contract for its own ASAT program to the Vought Corp. of Dallas. The U.S. plan is to leap frog the relatively crude Soviet ASAT technology and put into space by the mid-1980s hunter-killer satellites armed with lasers that could vaporize metal in 20 billionths of a second...
Last week the Rand Corp., in a study for the Pentagon, argued that the nation is far better off with volunteer soldiers than with draftees. The 394-page report is the work of Richard V.L. Cooper, a respected economist and manpower specialist. His key findings, as outlined in his report and in an interview with TIME...
...half proposal was put forward by Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal-unenthusiastically. The former chairman of Bendix Corp. at first sought to defend the expense-account lunch. But in a long session in the White House earlier this year, Blumenthal and his aides came away convinced that Carter's moral conviction compelled him to take action against what he believes to be an unjustified excess...
...Ball took over management of the estate at Alfred's death 42 years ago, it was worth $27 million after taxes. Today it is estimated at more than $2 billion. The mainstay of the estate is its rich stock portfolio, which includes 1.1 million shares of General Motors Corp., in which the Du Ponts once had a huge investment, and 702,880 shares of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. itself...
Perhaps, because the old Trib did not go gently into that good nightside. The paper's overseas edition, the International Herald Tribune (circ. 118,000), is still published in Paris by IHT Corp., a joint venture of the New York Times, Washington Post and Whitney Communications, the old Trib's last owner. Accordingly, IHT Corp. is suing the owners of the new Trib for trademark infringement. The Trib, in turn, has sued IHT and the Times for harassment and antitrust violations, asking $7.5 million in treble damages. Saffir accuses IHT of trying to prevent his paper from appearing...