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...snub-nosed .38 revolver aimed at Bay Lop's temple and the grimace on his face are etched into the memory of every American who read a newspaper in 1968. His summary execution by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Vietnam's national police, during the second day of the 1968 Tet offensive in Saigon altered U.S. public opinion about what was at stake in the war as much as any other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called...
...sharp drop in both state and federal funding; public colleges and universities, which had previously relied on tuition and legislative grants to pay the bills, now compete aggressively with private institutions for corporate and foundation grants. Even heavily endowed Ivy League schools are deferring maintenance and debating whether to lop off entire academic branches. Yale, for example, is considering a plan that would close its linguistics department and merge three branches of engineering into one; Columbia is abandoning its highly regarded library-science program. Still, the Ivies are doing better than the vast California State university system. San Diego State...
...foreign subsidiaries, including its newly buoyant movie and record business in America, will allow giant Sony to declare a worldwide profit of $1.2 billion, its core business at home is expected to lose $156 million for fiscal 1991, its first loss ever. As a result, Sony plans to lop off $2.15 billion from its capital-spending budget and $1.8 billion from...
...less than 25% today. "We've cut layers of management," says a company spokesman. "These are our ways of staying alive and being competitive." In Detroit, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors have eliminated 350,000 jobs since 1979, a reduction of 36%. The Big Three plan to lop off another 20,000 white-collar positions this year...
...Desert Storm began, the cold war formally ended and , the Pentagon was about to take some cuts. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney plans to trim the Army 31% over the next five years, the Navy 13%, the Air Force 28% and the Marines 14%. Taken together, those projected reductions will lop off 500,000 men and women -- or about the size of the force in the gulf -- from the 2.1 million now in uniform...