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...Government is run horribly," declared the task-force chairman, J. Peter Grace, 70, the flamboyant head of the New York-based W.R. Grace & Co. He noted that the Pentagon had been paying $91 for screws that cost 3? "in any hardware store." He charged that the Federal Government has failed to collect some $100 billion each year in taxes that are owed it. "If you're still paying taxes," he said to his audience, "hi, sucker...
...Grace group's big-ticket items will be politically difficult to change. Some $30 billion could be saved over three years, it contends, by raising the average civil service retirement age from 55 to the private sector's prevalent 64 and scaling back cost of living increases. Noting that military personnel can retire after 30 years of service at about 75% of base pay, the survey said $26.1 billion in spending would be cut by making benefits for future military retirees more comparable to civilian pensions...
Soon after Goodman was turned over to the U.S. embassy in Damascus, the elder Goodmans' were reunited with Robert via satellite on the morning news shows. Before millions of television viewers, they spoke with touchingly awkward grace. Goodman's wife Terry, who had waited out the ordeal at their home in Virginia Beach, met her husband at Andrews with a wordless embrace. Her low-profile role had perhaps been the toughest. "She just kept on," marveled her next-door neighbor, Susan Wachter. "I don't think I could have done it. She's definitely a good...
Broyles' era included other questionable decisions. In September 1982, an obituary for Grace Kelly remained as the cover story even after hundreds of Palestinians had been massacred by Lebanese Christians in refugee camps in an Israeli-controlled section of Beirut. Broyles' explanation: he did not know he could switch covers on a Saturday, as TIME did. Last August a provocative story on the impact of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) on the gay community was illustrated by a cover photograph of two men in an embrace...
DIED. Richard Hughes, 77, flamboyant dean of Asia's English-language foreign press corps, whose Bible-quoting, storytelling prowess made him "Your Grace" to generations of journalists; of kidney and liver diseases; in Hong Kong. Born in Melbourne, Hughes covered the North African campaign of World War II and the Korean and Viet Nam wars, and reported on Asia for the Times of London and the Economist. He was the model for the journalist Old Craw in John le Carré's The Honourable Schoolboy...