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...command his own 2,000-member police force but also oversee 200 deputy sheriffs, 70 California highway patrol officers and 200 FBI agents. He has ordered work shifts extended to twelve hours a day, introduced a 229-member squad specially trained to disperse rapidly and arrest violent demonstrators, and overseen the planning for every contingency from tipsy delegates to terrorist attacks. Says Murphy, whose headquarters will be at the police command post across the street from Moscone Center: "We foresee traffic as being our biggest problem. But no matter what happens, we are prepared to deal with...
...range of political and religious groups to band together in opposition to the government. In an effort to reassure Sudan's principal backers, Egypt and the U.S., that it is not seeking a leftist revolution, the opposition is proposing to set up a secular democracy that would be overseen by a triumvirate during its first five transitional years. "It is no longer a struggle between the Christian and pagan south [of Sudan] and the Muslim north," observes one of the President's opponents. "It is now a struggle between all political groups and Nimeiri...
With three outside managers overseen by an investment committee, the college enjoyed a 70.3 percent increase in 1982-3, according to BU official Patricia A. Doyle. That was the number three performance in the nation, and BU's three- and five-year records are the top in the country, according to a study by the Dartmouth-based National Association of Colleges and University Business Offices...
...project--overseen by Charles A. Czeisler, assistant professor of Medicine--focuses on workers' biological rhythms and the consequences of disrupted work schedules...
...idea for the program came from Michael Fuchs, president of HBO's entertainment division, who thought that the times covered and the way TIME covered them would make for a lively combination of film and words. The show was made for HBO by Bruce Cohn Productions and overseen by Fuchs and Bridget Potter, HBO vice president for original programming...