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South African operations: According to spokesman Michael Decker, the company sells parts for mining machinery and employs 13 to 15 workers, some of whom are South African nationals. Decker said the company "endorses" the Sullivan Principles, but is not a signatory because the company's operations there are so limited. It costs about $7000 a year to have the Arthur D. Little Co., a Cambridge consulting firm, review a company's operations to see if it is complying...
...waiting with sifters, who shake the dirt back and forth. The Americans wrap a winch line around a nearby tree to help pull a piece of rusted metal out of the hard-packed soil. "I don't have any idea what it is," says Navy Lieut. Commander Loren E. Decker Jr., a tall, muscular man standing at the bottom of the deep hole. "It's so mangled, you can't tell...
...nearly 5 o'clock now, and the men in the pit are beginning to emerge wearily. Navy Lieut. Commander Decker is the last man left in, a solitary figure warmed by the fading gold of the afternoon sun. Like the others, he is a kind of archaeologist exhuming not the distant past but a recent one, searching not for fossils and amulets but for the bones and traces of lost colleagues...
...told how especially touching it was for her "to see Carl out on the track there in Los Angeles. Jesse would have been proud." Lewis thanked her, and though he had not planned to say anything of the kind, declared for athletes generally, maybe for past Owens Winners Mary Decker and Edwin Moses particularly, "We are people too; we make mistakes. But we do our hardest...
...fault found in Decker also had to do with style. That flinty and fragile , 15-year-old who flung batons in charming anger simply seemed less wholesome and attractive at 26 throwing brickbats at Zola Budd. Before a poster of Decker tacked tenderly to her bedroom wall, Zola had once been awestruck that "anyone could be so pretty." Now that the athletes have resumed running and jumping, a number have been reluctant to let Mary up. "Some of us," says Ruth Wysocki, "are relieved that the public knows the Mary we knew all along," the one whom Miler Steve Scott...