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Javits' argument is increasingly accepted. The canal, too narrow for the largest aircraft carriers and supertankers, is no longer the maritime lifeline it once was. On the contrary, it is widely regarded in Latin America as an anachronistic relic of the colonialist era-and an easy target for nationalist violence...
...Premier Ali Nasser Mohamed. East Germany is also believed to be running three training camps in South Yemen for radical Palestinian commandos. East Berlin has dispatched "Brigades of Friendship," consisting of military, ideological, security and medical cadres, to Angola; in Mozambique, the East German "diplomatic" mission has become the largest in the country, exceeding even that of the Soviet Union. East Germany's increasingly complex African operations are now handled by a special secretariat in East Berlin, headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Alex Schalk...
Among the 50 or so companies producing the versatile little devices are some of the nation's largest electronics and computer firms- IBM, Motorola and Texas Instruments, where Computer Scientist Jack Kilby pioneered in developing the integrated circuit, the predecessor of the chip. Also included are a host of brash upstarts that did not even exist ten years ago (see box). Last year's chip sales of $235 million, while still modest compared with the revenues of the entire computer industry, are expected to grow by a startling 50% annually and exceed $800 million by as early...
...government of Mali has tentatively selected the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) to advise that northwest African nation on rural health services in a four-year, multimillion dollar project, one of the institute's largest ever...
Harvard is the fourth largest private employer in Massachusetts, with over 11,000 employees at the College and the graduate schools...