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Last week all 18 building inspectors were suspended and two promptly retired; the city's building-codes administrator resigned, and the public works director was put on "involuntary leave." And the fuss may not be over: the county prosecutor is considering bringing criminal charges...
...Captain Johnson. Arab-language radio stations were retelling the story of the American who stopped three Israeli tanks "singlehanded." Colonel Thomas Stokes, the Marine commander in Lebanon, said that Johnson would receive a commendation for his action. As for Johnson, he modestly called his sudden fame "a lot of fuss over not that much of a deal." On that point alone, the Israelis would agree...
...cause of that fuss was the disappearance of two projection mask aligners (price: $250,000 each) made by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. The automobile-size machines, called Micralign 200s by Perkin-Elmer, are used in the manufacture of microcircuitry for everything from digital watches to missile guidance systems. Designed ten years ago, the equipment has since been superseded by more advanced models. Nonetheless, the Commerce Department has it on a list of equipment banned for export to Iron Curtain countries. Commerce analysts estimate that 70% of computer microchips made in the Soviet Union are turned out on Western...
...with compatriots he considers wrongheaded. "If Reagan fails to concede more flexibility," says one colleague, "I think Paul would leave." Even if Nitze is finally forced out of government, he will surely prefer to go discreetly, ever the gentleman policymaker. Says Nitze: "There's been entirely too much fuss made over problems here on the Washington scene." The fuss and the problems are surely not over yet. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington
...President and that he will lose his leadership edge," says a White House aide, who adds, "There's a real smell in this town that Reagan is not going to run." The President himself, despite the image of vultures circling the Oval Office, remains characteristically easygoing about the fuss. But in Washington, Baker's unexpected public musing about leaving the Senate has been taken as a signal that the jockeying for position in 1984 has already begun in the back rooms of the Republican Party...