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That will add one more probe of General Dynamics to several already under way. In New Haven, Conn., the company remains the target of a year-old grand jury investigation into a former director's charges that it submitted false billing claims. In Washington, the Internal Revenue Service is reportedly examining whether General Dynamics has been cheating on taxes, and the Securities and Exchange Commission wants to know if the firm manipulated its stock price in the late 1970s...
...Administration by opposing the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction proposal, which the President supports despite its provisions for cutting military spending. The Secretary's credibility on Capitol Hill has shrunk to the point where Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater bluntly told Weinberger at his most recent appearance, "You haven't answered any of our questions." Yet Reagan seemingly retains faith in his longtime and unquestionably loyal associate. When asked in Geneva whether he had any plans to fire Weinberger, the President responded with a blunt "Hell, no!" That is the only correspondence Weinberger needs to remain a member...
Since his retirement from academic duties in 1981, the author and Brenda, his wife of 46 years, have been spending less time at their modern apartment in Toronto and more at their house on 150 acres of land near Lake Ontario. This haven does more than satisfy an author's need for peace and quiet. A vast inland sea once covered the property, and Davies can refresh his conviction that the world is full of surprises every time he finds a fossil in his garden...
...National Basketball Association (1949-63) who despite his sketchy knowledge of the game helped to lay the foundation for the professional sport, notably by shifting it out of high school gymnasiums into spacious arenas and by negotiating the league's first TV contract ($3,000, in 1954); in New Haven, Conn...
...Special Air Services at five airports. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the American lawyers in July, "We have behind us many fine declarations and communiqués of good intent. We need action, action to which all countries are committed until the terrorist knows that he has no haven, no escape...