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...largest U.S. military contingent in Central America is based in Panama to protect the canal. It includes 9,000 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, who man an infantry brigade, a squadron of A-7 light attack jets and a Special Forces airborne battalion. Although these forces could be carried by C-130 troop transports to Honduras or Nicaragua in less than two hours, security of the canal presumably would be of great concern in a military crisis in Central America. Any responding American troops would probably be airlifted from the U.S. in the manner soon to be rehearsed...
...addition to providing aid, Japan is buying more from its neighbors. Last year Japanese imports from ASEAN amounted to $20.9 billion, an increase of 118.9% from five years ago. Japan is now the largest or second largest trading partner of every country in the area...
Under the proposed agreement, Alleghany will become an investment holding company whose principal asset is American Express stock. The deal will make Alleghany the largest single stockholder of the financial conglomerate with about a 10% stake. Alleghany will receive 15.3 million shares of American Express, nearly three times its book value. Says Robinson in defense of the deal: "It's a high price, but it's got the sales force and management in place. You've got to pay a premium for that...
...even more business acumen, Shelley Duvall, 34, has turned her fantasy into video reality. She is executive producer and guiding spirit of Faerie Tale Theatre, a series of hour-long classics featuring marquee names, which has become a popular and critical success on Showtime, the nation's second-largest pay-television service. Showtime, with 4 million-plus subscribers, is currently airing the sixth of her fanciful tales, The Sleeping Beauty, and plans to show three more by the end of the year. So far, Duvall has enticed Joan Collins, Elliott Gould, Maureen Stapleton and Mick Jagger into such unlikely...
...spoke, the Hertz of teachers' unions was meeting in Philadelphia. The National Education Association, which represents 1.7 million school employees, controlled the largest bloc of delegates and alternates at the 1980 Democratic Convention. Diametrically opposed to Reagan's policies, the N.E.A. last week played host to five Democratic presidential hopefuls. The mood of the delegates at the N.E.A. meeting was defensive. Said outgoing N.E.A. President Willard McGuire: "We've often been accused of speaking to our self-interests, seeking to reduce our work loads or increase our association's membership. That...