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...newly created Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. That unit is headed by Assistant Secretary of State Patricia Derian, 49, a combative and articulate civil rights activist from Mississippi. Derian has traveled to 15 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe to explain Administration policy and inspect local conditions. She and eight deputies make sure that the human rights performance of every would-be recipient of U.S. aid is taken into account before a grant, loan or sale is approved...
...nation's arms merchants, it must often seem like the week before Christmas. Customers keep flocking in to inspect the shiny new toys, and sales keep booming. In recent months the U.S. has sold 18 F-4 Phantom jets to South Korea for $164 million, a guided-missile frigate to Australia ($183 million) and antitank missiles to Sweden and Switzerland ($155 million). While Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was pressing at Camp David for up to 120 of America's F-5E Tiger fighter-bombers totaling close to half a billion dollars, Israel was seeking two dozen of the faster...
...Giorgio, has given his clothing store a British club atmosphere. He offers an espresso and cocktail bar (free drinks), a pool table, a "reading area" with a newspaper rack, supple leather chairs and a crackling wood-burning fireplace, presumably to give bored husbands something to do while their wives inspect the creations of some 60 European designers. Giorgio has no trouble paying its overhead. Most U.S. retailers would be happy to sell annually $100 worth of merchandise for every sq. ft. of floor space; Hayman claims that Giorgio averages $1,000 per sq. ft., and revenues last year were...
...Biohazards Committee should be to keep in contact with researchers at Harvard and MIT, inspect laboratories conducting the research, and occasionally sit in on meetings of the universities' own biohazards committees, Hayes said...
...committee, with House masters and senior tutors, will inspect each House and the Yard dormitories to determine their security needs...