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Most defectors, having taken the emotion-wrenching step of leaving their homeland, are confused or, as one intelligence expert puts it, "kooky," when they arrive at their destinations. Not Belenko. After getting out of the plane and firing the. warning shot, he willingly surrendered to Japanese police, who placed him in custody for having violated Japanese immigration procedures and for possession of illegal weapons. Those charges were only legal ruses to keep Lieut. Belenko safely in Japanese hands...
...washers and dryers by $10 to $20, and Magic Chef put off a proposed price hike on ranges. Whatever anti-inflationary benefits result could be short-lived, however. Few analysts are betting that steelmakers will not try for another boost before the year is out. Says one Wall Street expert: "The first half-hour that they feel the demand is there, they'll try again...
TUFTS UNIVERSITY (6,500 students; Medford, Mass.). For French-born Jean Mayer, 56, an internationally known nutrition expert, the presidency of Tufts is but a single line in a seven-page single-spaced curriculum vitae that includes medals for his role in the World War II French Resistance, appointments to numerous presidential commissions and more than a dozen academic posts. Nonetheless, Mayer plans to devote his full energies to Tufts. He hopes to open New England's first school of veterinary medicine there, and in Tufts' graduate schools to emphasize those programs "where jobs will be waiting...
...Mulholland screened some 150 tapes of local and network newswomen. Since July a dozen candidates have been brought to New York for interviews or live auditions, and three have reached the finals: Pauley, 25, who anchors the 5 o'clock news on NBC's Chicago affiliate; Consumer Expert Betty Furness, 60, who took the job provisionally when Walters left and completed her tryout last Friday; and Cassie Mackin, 38, a crack NBC Washington correspondent. After Mackin's final audition next week, NBC will poll 2,000 selected viewers in eight cities on their preference, and network executives...
Newspaper editors had to wonder too. The New York Times, which gallantly runs page after page of important foreign policy documents, feels no such compulsion at conventions; even the keynote speech is reduced to excerpts. The Times, says Deputy Managing Editor Seymour Topping, aims to set before its readers-expert and nonexpert-a "high quality smorgasbord"; that way, presumably, the reader on the run can find enough nourishment without having to sample every dish. Jim Hoge, the Chicago Sun-Times editor, drastically cut back his paper's coverage and space on the second day of the Democratic Convention, convinced...