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...carry it through the lean years, J.P.L. has been looking for new ways to employ its engineering talents, including development of fuel-efficient vehicles, solar power and improved biomedical instrumentation. But the most dramatic change has been J.P.L.'s increasing militarization. Much of the work involves secret research for the Air Force on new gadgetry like satellites that can operate without direct guidance from the ground, an enormous asset in possible space wars, when instant responses may mean life or death for a piece of orbiting hardware...
...gone. "It used to be that the whistle would blow at noon and everybody on the block would go home to lunch and the whistle blow at one and everybody would come back [to work]" says DiDomenico American Rubber. I ever Brothers and Squire Meatpacking no longer employ thousands of Easties. The result is that more of the residents work outside the area...
...public criticism of the Israeli action, although Begin received an extraordinary dose of acerbic reaction when he paid a courtesy visit to Congress. When Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachussetts asked Begin whether Israel had used U.S.-made cluster bombs in Lebanon, despite an earlier promise not to employ those deadly weapons in offensive operations, Begin replied that he did not know. Tsongas found that hard to believe. Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, jabbing his finger at Begin, warned that U.S. support for Israel was eroding. Begin shouted back: "Don't threaten us with cutting...
Manuel also denies that he was the middleman between the White House and Schiavone in hiring the detectives. Like Shortley, he is a close friend of Hickey's and was once a client of Meese's law firm in California. Indeed, Meese and Hickey tried to employ Manuel as a White House consultant not long after Reagan's Inauguration last year. Hickey put through a formal request to hire Manuel and gave the sleuth a temporary White House pass that was valid until April 1981. Hickey, whose duties include overseeing Air Force One and Camp David, says...
...concluded that he did not need Manuel's services. TIME has learned that the hiring was actually scrapped by Hickey's boss, Michael Deaver, deputy chief of staff at the White House. Deaver was annoyed that Hickey had apparently secured Meese's approval to employ Man uel; jealous of his bureaucratic turf, Deaver ordered the hiring stopped...