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...nine years that Killeen has been the cajoling chief of IDA, more than 175 U.S. companies have started manufacturing in Ireland. Industrial investment, primarily from the FORTUNE 500 but also from Australia, Japan and Ireland's Common Market partners, is doubling every four years. The foreign companies' exports are rising even more rapidly...
First, advises Killeen, make industrial development a national commitment, a cause that will attract the society's brightest minds. Every country has its high-spirited elite. In some it is the marines, in others the entrepreneurs or professors or civil servants. In Ireland it is the IDA, which gets its pick of the university graduates. After a few years they can parachute into richer jobs in business, but most stay because it is a calling...
Other performers in the Caravan production are obviously talented but don't even try to be sordid. You would be glad to have Ida Beecher's Mrs. Peachum as your grandmother; she plays the kind old lady to perfection, but brings an element of benevolence onto Brecht's stage that doesn't belong there...
Although Shcharansky, 30, had been spared the death penalty, his trial and conviction raised questions around the world about the benefits of Carter's zealous espousal of the human rights cause in the Soviet Union. But at the end of the trial, Shcharansky's mother, Ida Milgrom, 70, indicated that Russia's dissidents are thankful for Carter's support. Although shaken by the predictable verdict, the diminutive white-haired woman stood outside the Moscow courtroom in a light summer rain and read a message to Carter before Western correspondents: ''During the painful days of the trial I have not left...
...five years' internal exile for "malicious hooliganism." Slepak's offense: he and his wife had unfurled a banner saying LET US GO TO OUR SON IN ISRAEL on the balcony of their apartment as part of their campaign to win per mission to emigrate. Another Jewish dissident, Ida Nudel, 47, was sentenced to a four-year exile for a similar demonstration the same...