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...President's trip brought a personal flavor to the growing rapprochement. Having spent time with Deng and the rest of the top echelon, said a White House aide, "the President sees them as human beings, not as some anonymous red horde." For Deng, the "most important progress is that I met the President for the first time." A major concern of U.S. diplomats is whether Deng, 79, will be able to install a new generation of leaders who share his distrust of the Soviets and fascination with free enterprise. If he cannot, the door to the Middle Kingdom could...
...array of goodies at the top poses the hazard of a backlash among lower-echelon managers. The auto engineers at Ford, for example, traditionally the loyal core of the company, have lately taken to griping and restlessness. A major defense contractor, Drucker says, recently lost 20 prized engineers who had received only a 3% salary boost at a time when top management got a package of incentives totaling 30%. Says Drucker: "Resentment over top-management compensation is by no means confined to unions and rank-and-file employees...
...Pope's approval, new bishops for most of the world. He is the first black prelate ever to head a major Vatican office. For good measure, the Pope summoned another African, Archbishop Francis Arinze of Nigeria, to run the Vatican Secretariat for non-Christians, one of the second-echelon offices in the bureaucracy...
...September after an NBC broadcast alleged that a U.S. Justice Department report had linked Pindling and one of his ministers to $100,000-a-month payments from drug traffickers. But any hope Pindling had that the inquiry would eliminate the rumors quickly backfired. At first testimony centered on lower-echelon civil servants: customs officials and police officers who were accused of accepting bribes for turning a blind eye to trafficking on the outer islands. But then witnesses began taking pot shots at the ruling Progressive Liberal Party, government ministers and finally Pindling himself...
...genuine or not, it almost doesn't matter in the end." After they had been exposed as forgeries, Newsweek ran a second cover suggesting that it had played a major role in uncovering the fraud. Says one Newsweek veteran: "That episode killed Parker. There were expressions of high-echelon support, but it was poor judgment, and everyone knew...