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...company's gradual break since the late 1950s with its research-oriented beginnings. BBN now divides its financial statements into two halves: research and consulting, and computer and communications products. The future profits clearly lie within the latter sales-oriented sector, which has grown much quicker than its research counterpart in the last several years...
...that there were losers as well as winners. Everybody seemed able to find hopeful political omens in the patchwork of results. "Tuesday's election," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt, "brought good news for the national Democratic Party." Oh yeah? Declared Frank Fahrenkopf, Manatt's G.O.P. counterpart: "The election provided good news to the Republican Party and President Reagan...
Neither he nor his Republican opponent, John Egan Jr., appealed to racial antagonisms of the kind that besmirched Chicago's mayoral election. It is encouraging that the Democratic machine in the City of Brotherly Love, unlike its counterpart in Chicago, did not stint in its support for a black nominee. Even Frank Rizzo, the bilious ex-mayor who was beaten by Goode in the primary, campaigned for him. However, the vote still cut unmistakably along racial lines. Goode received the support of 98% of blacks. And though he picked up a quarter of the white vote, a comparable white...
Andropov also promised, pending an INF agreement, to put an end "to the deployment of SS-20 missiles in the eastern areas of the U.S.S.R." Chief U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli A. Kvitsinsky tentatively agreed to a similar freeze on Soviet missiles aimed at China and Japan during their now famous and repudiated "walk in the woods" in July 1982. But even then, the deal would have left the Soviets with 90 SS-20s in Soviet Asia; today the figure would...
Last weekend Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko flew to Vienna to meet with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. There were reports that Gromyko asked Genscher to help arrange a summit between the superpowers to help avert a crisis over the missile deployment. The latest Soviet moves appeared to signal an increased willingness in Moscow to push its war of nerves with Washington over the missiles to the crisis point. Said a West European diplomat: "The Soviets are trying to scare the hell out of everyone...