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...burns. Perhaps another 3,000 refugees, displaced from their homes on the fringes of the affected 10-sq.-mi. area, were evacuated by army troops. All told, it was estimated that 20,000 lives were upended by the freakish disaster that was aptly, if ineloquently described by M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as a "Ripley's Believe It or Not event...
Catastrophic health insurance--which covers only major illnesses and accidents in exchange for low premiums--will become increasingly popular, according to McPherson Professor of Business Administration Regina E. Herzlinger...
...eyewitness accounts of relief workers and surveys conducted in Sudan among Ethiopian refugees by Cultural Survival, a U.S. human rights group. It alleges that many peasants were taken against their will, sometimes at gunpoint, and trucked south, only to be left on uncleared land with inadequate rations. M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has denounced resettlement as a "vast human tragedy" and calls the report a "very positive development." But an Ethiopian government official labeled French doctors' charges "preposterous...
...having illegally charged its expenses to other Government accounts. Funds were allegedly used in part to develop computer software and purchase up to $500,000 worth of ammunition. Along with Beggs, who was then a company director, the indictment names lower-level ! officials: Ralph Hawes, division general manager, David McPherson, program director, and James Hansen, assistant director...
DIED. William McPherson Allen, 85, former president (1945-68) and chief executive officer (1968-72) of the Boeing Co.; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; at his home in Seattle. Allen led Boeing's post-World War II re-entry into the commercial market. Perhaps his greatest coup was staking $16 million on the construction of a swept-wing prototype for a commercial jet, which later evolved into the Boeing...