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...meaning President Reagan) to maintain contact with operational units." Worst of all, wrote the admiral, the damage will continue long after codes and communications plans are changed because the Soviets gauged the "true capabilities and vulnerabilities of the U.S. Navy (and) identified the specific steps which could achieve the largest gains" in enabling their fleet to fight more effectively. In recent years, said Studeman, "we have seen clear signals of dramatic Soviet gains in all naval warfare areas, which must now be interpreted in light of the Walker-Whitworth espionage conspiracy." There is a lingering fear, too, not mentioned...
...disturbing case was by no means the first attack on U.S. narcotics officers in Guadalajara, Mexico's third largest city. In October 1984 gunfire peppered a DEA agent's car while it was parked in front of his Guadalajara home. Four months later another U.S. drug buster, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was abducted in the same city. His corpse was found the following month in a plastic bag. While dozens of police officers were dismissed or jailed in the wake of the murder, Washington claims many other suspects remain at large. U.S. officials say Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, a drug lord...
...main beneficiaries of the interest cut will be medium- and small-size businesses that typically borrow at or near the prime rate. (The nation's largest corporations are usually offered rates below prime to prevent them from turning to alternative financing sources, such as bonds and overseas capital markets.) The drop in the prime will also have an effect on consumer loans. Rates for 30-year fixed-rate home mortgages, for example, have already dropped below 10% in the Northeast for the first time since April. On the other hand, yields on passbook savings accounts, which have traditionally hovered...
Money-losing People Express, Frontier's troubled, no-frills parent, had pulled the plug on its cash-short subsidiary six weeks after announcing that Frontier was to be sold to powerful United Airlines, the largest U.S. commercial carrier, for $146 million. People executives continued to pursue negotiations with United, which had been pledged some of Frontier's most important assets in return for a $46.7 million advance payment. But the remainder of their original deal was in tatters. At last, on Thursday, Frontier formally filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. Said People Express in a statement: "Unless some other entity...
...Those two forces may soon surpass the manpower of the regular Army. The numbers have virtually forced the Army to assign National Guard units to combat roles. Fully 44% of the Army's combat units come from the Guard, which by one estimate is now the seventh largest army in the free world...