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...recession, moreover, has done little to halt the flow of many foreign goods into the gulf. Saudi Arabia imported $10.46 billion worth of such products as industrial machinery and farm goods during the second quarter of 1983, a 5% increase over the first quarter. In the United Arab Emirates, imports were 2% higher in the first half of this year than in the same period a year ago. Result: after years of accumulating huge surpluses, some energy-producing states are now sinking into the red. Saudi Arabia is expected to spend some $26 billion more than it takes in from...
...first stage in this "dollar democracy" was for Draper Labs--a Cambridge company which designs missile guidance systems--to hire two expensive public relations specialists. One of these then organized the campaign against the referendum, and the money began to flow in. The Times article reports that contribution totalled $150,000 from such major out-of-state military contractors as Hughes Aircraft, Sperry Corporation and General Electric. Money also came from Draper Labs, which is unwilling to disclose the extent of its financing. But the total of corporate funds employed by Draper's pro-nuclear campaign may well have been...
...flag of the People's Republic of China flow over University Hall yesterday, marking the visit of a Chinese government coalition examining Harvard's educational system...
...acquisitions today-a helium-neon laser, a flow meter, some bookends, a Rolodex, a light table, a 3-ft.-tall thermos for liquid nitrogen, a massive pneumatically operated vacuum valve-will go into storage with the rest, waiting for a buyer. "I've got $20 million-that's Government cost, not mine-worth of stuff," says Grothus. "I'm looking for someone to sell it to for 10? on the dollar. I'm trying to sell it to the People's Republic of China. It's usable. It would fill the technical and scientific...
...invasion of Grenada will be debated for years. The unprecedented exclusion of the American press from that operation requires no debate; clearly it was a bad mistake, an outrage to press freedom and an ominous symptom of a tendency in the Reagan Administration to try to control the flow of information...