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...actually bee droppings. Last week, as the beleaguered Meselson sat dictating letters requesting $700 from the Harvard administration to help fund his work, the phone rang. An official of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago informed him that he had been chosen to receive a fiveyear, no-strings $256,000 award. Meselson covered the mouthpiece and gleefully exclaimed to his secretary, "Money...
...ignore a key proposal: that U.S. military aid to El Salvador be continued and expanded only if the government curbs right-wing killers. But by week's end Reagan was promising to try to work something out with Congress. As to the commission's recommendation for a fiveyear, $8 billion program of economic aid, Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd grumbled, "It is highly questionable for a nation that is racking up $200 billion-a-year deficits to consider pouring $8 billion into Central America...
...threatening nuclear retaliation, the U.S. should build a kind of electronic shield to "intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reach our own soil." Last week that grandiose sci-fi vision moved closer to becoming U.S. policy. Reagan and his National Security Council approved in principle a fiveyear, $21 billion plan to begin more rapidly developing an arsenal of space weapons, in particular orbiting "ray guns" that would fire intense beams of energy at enemy missiles. Said Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb and one of the plan's most enthusiastic advocates...
...mean?" Steinbrenner blustered. "I'm handling all the trades . . . And if you don't like it, you're fired." The canned comeback from Martin, whom Steinbrenner has dumped twice before: "You haven't even hired me yet." The born-again manager has a reported fiveyear, $2.5 million contract, but if he cannot inject some pennant fever into last year's fifth-place finishers, George no doubt will bounce Billy ball once more...
...While Zia's explanations were not always wholly convincing, the timing of his state visit could hardly have been better. Aid to Pakistan will be decided by Congress before Christmas. In order to fulfill its promise of $275 million in military aid next year, as part of a fiveyear, $3.2 billion aid program whose centerpiece is 40 advanced F-16 fighter-bombers, the Administration must persuade the lameduck Congress to execute a complicated set of technical maneuvers...