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...Moscow, the official Soviet news agency Tass carried a dispatch on the Shultz Gromyko statement in its English language service...
...firm founded by his father: "Companies are controlling their inventory by relying on us for fast delivery of vital shipments." At its Memphis headquarters, Federal Express stockpiles supplies for 64 of its commercial customers in a giant warehouse called the parts bank. From this source, the company can dispatch items wherever they are needed...
...borders of banking. Customers at Houston's Medical Center Bank with at least $100,000 in their accounts are welcome to borrow the company airplane, a six-passenger Navajo Chieftain. They are asked only to fill the gas tank. At a customer's request, the bank will dispatch its limousine or arrange for theater tickets. The bank, which is situated at the Texas Medical Center, decided in 1978 to devote itself entirely to doctors and other wealthy customers. Says Chairman Donald Neuenschwander: "You can't be all things to all people. But I can be all things...
...Syrian President Hafez Assad visited Moscow last week, his Chief of Staff, Major General Hikmat Shehabi, declared that Syria was prepared to dispatch thousands of volunteers to fight the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Thereafter, the Israelis let it be known that they might not leave the areas in which they face Syrian forces after all. That was an apparent effort to press the Syrians to make some tangible concessions on the security question...
...steppes of Siberia. In fact, the Soviets intend to use the machine, one of the world's most powerful, to get into Western data banks that contain American military and technological secrets. Rather than objecting to the supercomputer sale, U.S. intelligence officials decide to capitalize on it. They dispatch an M.I.T. scientist to Paris to plant a "softbomb," or programmed booby trap, in the computer's meteorologic software. The key to the ploy is the information relayed by the U.S. National Weather Service to meteorologic centers all over the world. When the atmospheric pressure on St. Thomas...