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...tumbled .5%, compared with the same period last year. Reason: the computer troubles delayed payment on $6.7 billion in tax refunds that people would have otherwise received and probably spent. At fault is the most expensive and sophisticated computer system ever used to sift through America's tax returns: eleven Sperry 1100/84 machines. Each computer has 8 million characters of memory and can perform up to 8 million operations a second...
Even as the suicide drivers brought more terror to a long-suffering area, a Syrian-sponsored meeting of Lebanese Muslim leaders was gathering in Damascus to hammer out a new peace plan for Lebanon. After more than eleven hours of talks, Shi'ite, Sunni and Druze leaders announced a 16-point agreement. The accord was significant in that for the first time it proposed power sharing between Muslims and Christians on an equal basis. The agreement also promised to tighten security at the Beirut airport, a pledge that received warm approval from the Reagan Administration...
Last week's verdicts ended an eleven-month trial in which Heidemann claimed that he had been misled by Kujau, a dealer in Nazi memorabilia. The court believed but had no concrete evidence to show that Heidemann had kept almost half the money. The journalist drew a prison term of 56 months for fraud. Kujau was sentenced to 54 months for fraud and forgery. Both were freed pending an appeal. The judge criticized Stern for the "bunker mentality" that encouraged editors to print their "scoop" without first establishing the diaries' authenticity...
...alternative certification to college graduates without formal teacher training. California granted emergency credentials to more than 4,000 instructors last year. Sunbelt schools are recruiting in northern states, where in many cases declining pupil populations have prevented a teacher shortage. The city of Modesto, Calif., this spring set up eleven recruiting centers in hotels from Massachusetts to Washington State. Georgia, although its shortage is still minor, has imported math and science teachers from West Germany. The Houston independent school district foraged all spring for 500 teachers as far north as Vancouver, only to discover that more than 100 new vacancies...
...shot." His secret: "a lot of hard work," including a daily five-mile walk and a 20-to-25-minute aerobics workout most mornings. For 35 years he has limited himself to a one-meal-a-day diet. Ameche would rather spend more time with his six children, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren than make another movie. But he has no intention of slowing down. Says he: "I do everything I want to do--in moderation of course. There's no reason to stop growing when you're 77." And at the top of your form...