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...from Boston to Los Angeles spoke with academic experts, arms manufacturers and dealers, but the main files came from Washington. There, Joseph Kane, who covers the Pentagon, and Jerry Hannifin, our expert in military and aerospace technology, collaborated to analyze the policies and hardware of the world's largest arms purveyor: the U.S. No stranger to weapons or military politics, Kane commanded a howitzer battery in the peacetime Army in Germany in the early 1950s. As Atlanta bureau chief he directed coverage of the William Galley court martial, last year reported for our cover story on Defense Secretary James...
...investment will be the largest ever made in a U.S. company by an OPEC country. If the Civil Aeronautics Board approves-which it is expected to do within two months-Iran will pay about $55 million for a half interest in Pan Am's profitable chain of 66 Inter-Continental hotels and will provide Pan Am with about $245 million in direct loans. In addition, Iran will appoint one member to Pan Am's 17-member board and will get an option to buy 13% of the airline's outstanding stock...
...airline, the CAB must determine whether ownership of 10% or more is in the public interest. Pan Am's current management will have to prove to the CAB that it will still make the decisions, even if Iran becomes by far the largest single stockholder. "It was very clear from the beginning that Iran did not want control of Pan Am," says George Ball, the senior managing director of Lehman Brothers and former U.S. Under Secretary of State, who represented the airline during the negotiations. "They don't have the desire or the expertise...
Wayne S. Cole's Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War 2 is his third book on this period. In America First: The Battle Against Intervention 1940-41. Cole detailed the history of the largest isolationist organization of that time, the America First Committee. Senator Gerald P. Nye and American Foreign Relations is a study of the career of one of Congress's most ardent isolationists. In Lindbergh, Cole documents the history of the aviator's involvement with anti-interventionists politics and presents a complete picture of Lindbergh's foreign policy views. The book...
...sounded like something out of Stalin's Russia or Communist China: a head of government threatening to shut down Roman Catholic churches in his nation. But that warning comes this month from Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko, a baptized Catholic whose nation has the largest Christian population in Africa. Mobutu says he will close any church whose priest does not stick to spiritual matters and keep silent on public issues, and there is little reason to doubt that he means it. His words follow some very specific works...