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Balsiger, 38, began his crusade last fall, after the Soviets shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007. He claims 165 affiliate groups and organizations; he says that 35 of them insist on anonymity. Among the confederates listed by the coalition are a communications firm run by right-wing Publisher Richard Viguerie and the Elderly Korean-American Association of Orange County. Balsiger's group planned to organize demonstrations near 100 Olympic sites and to distribute 500,000 leaflets. A small squadron of propaganda planes was to buzz the city, each pulling a banner having 5-ft.-high letters, with exhortations...
Yasenak, 33, looks like the kind of neighborhood soldier Norman Rockwell painted. Although he is a former drill sergeant, as a recruiter he thinks it best not to insist or shove. Rather, his specialty is a kind of sober sweet talk about experience and cash bonuses and duty. Last year he persuaded 47 men and women to join the Army and Army Reserve, more than half again as many as his quota. "No," he corrects with deadpan good humor, "we don't have quotas. We have missions." Over four years, he figures, he has signed up enough people...
...were to insist on "getting results" from each responsible action of conscience, then who would ever write a letter to a senator.' We act in the faith and in the hope that others will join us, that we can contribute in our own small way to the arousal of the public conscience. We cannot expect--or bargain in advance to see the precise results of our commitments before we make them. We must do what we believe is right and hope that what we do will contribute to the eventual success of what we believe is right...
...being asked to leave the room, if necessary, so that consultants can have a free and open exchange on pay matters." Nonetheless, a leading former investment banker argues that even more needs to be done. Says he: "Questions should be asked about compensation at all levels. Shareholders should insist that compensation committees be composed of outside directors free to make comparisons, use consultants and make independent judgments." If high-level executive salaries keep rising steeply, more people will be asking those million-dollar questions more loudly. -By Stephen Koepp Reported by Paul A. Witteman/Detroit and Adam Zagorin/New York
...considered buying plants from Kaiser Steel, but backed out after deciding that the facilities were outdated. Last year the Japanese firm broke off negotiations to buy Ford's Rouge Steel unit, mainly because the United Auto Workers would not make wage concessions. This time Nippon Kokan did not insist on a new contract with National's steelworkers, though they make an average of $21 an hour in wages and benefits, compared with $11.60 an hour for their counterparts at the Japanese company...