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Casey came to the agency with top credentials. He learned intelligence by directing operations in Nazi-occupied Europe for the wartime Office of Strategic Services. During the Nixon and Ford Administrations, he served in a variety of economic posts. In his first three years as CIA director, he wangled budget increases of 20% or more out of Congress each year. (The agency's figures are secret, but a reliable estimate of its expenditures is $1.5 billion for the current fiscal year.) That has made possible a substantial increase in the number of CIA employees, to a current total...
...title, the journey will reaffirm China's determination to broaden its ties with the West. It will also allow millions of Americans following Reagan's trip on television to get an unusually close look at a nation that has undergone a major facelift 'in the nine years since Gerald Ford, the last U.S. President to visit China, landed in Peking...
...than that of other MPAs. The cost covers a series of administrative charges, including special trips and outings for the Fellow's families, as well as the Moroccan trip and special interviews for admission. A majority of the Mason Fellows are sponsored by international organizations such as USAID, the Ford Foundation or the Fulbright Commission, and therefore do not necessarily pay their costs directly...
...cavernous Claycomo Ford assembly plant near Kansas City, Mo., he munched a hamburger in the employee cafeteria, walked an assembly line and spoke to a crowd of about 1,000 auto workers. "As I toured your plant, I couldn't help but think back to the days when America's economy had sputtered and stalled," said Reagan. The next day, after visiting a partially completed $98,000 home in the Oak Hollow development near booming Dallas, he addressed about 50 construction workers assembled outside. "This is a picture of what's happening all over America," he beamed...
Executive salaries in Detroit are spiraling upward particularly fast. From 1980 to 1982 the depressed auto industry did not give out any bonuses, but now they are back-and big. Two weeks ago Ford announced that Chairman Philip Caldwell in 1983 received a salary of $520,534 and a bonus of $900,000. Stock options can dramatically boost total compensation figures even higher. Last year Caldwell's options netted him an extra $5,892,024. General Motors Chairman Roger Smith, whose company had record earnings of $3.7 billion in 1983, will probably get a salary and bonus package worth...