Word: harper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minuteman secrets by "an American businessman." The CIA puts questions to Jay through Attorney Dougherty and receives answers that dovetail with the mole's account. Following up clues provided by the mole and unwittingly corroborated by Dougherty, the FBI comes up with a name for Jay: James Durward Harper...
...secures a court order to tap Harper's telephone. Unable to win immunity, Harper makes remarks to friends, overheard by FBI agents, indicating that he is about to return to Poland and sell an additional 150 lbs. or so of copied documents he still has stashed away. On Oct. 15, Harper is arrested; it is only two days later that Attorney Dougherty learns from the FBI the real name of his client...
Enough cloak-and-dagger skulduggery? Wait, there may be more. Harper is being held without bail for a hearing Oct. 27. If convicted of espionage, he faces life imprisonment. If Harper talks some more, the big question is what he might say about William B. Hugle, an engineer-businessman in his late 50s who founded several Silicon Valley electronics firms...
They were too modest. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Harper & Row; 360 pages; $19.95) by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. has been the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller for 14 consecutive weeks. The millionth copy of the book rolled off the presses last month, less than a year after its November 1982 publication. That milestone, claims the publisher, made Excellence the second-fastest-selling nonfiction hardcover book in U.S. history, topped only by Alex Haley's Roots...
...equipment to volunteer instructors. In Chicago, 176 firms have established links with 600 schools; in Los Angeles, the figures are 189 and 225. Seven of Atlanta's largest banks, as well as the local Federal Reserve branch, have collaborated in establishing the city's newest magnet school, Harper High. The banks provide not only money but their own employees for financial courses and internships for interested students. Such programs have a variety of benefits. Memphis Schools