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Besides Bush and Kemp, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole is expected to enter the race. Other possible hopefuls include Howard Baker (who held Dole's job before retiring last year), former Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont IV and even the freshly converted Jeane Kirkpatrick, recently retired Ambassador to the U.N. Yet Bush and Kemp so far best symbolize the struggle for the mantle of Reaganism, the battle between the mainstream of the party establishment and the activists of the New Right. Some Republican strategists even believe that the race will turn into a "cultural civil war," pitting the blue-blooded...
...himself. The Philadelphia Inquirer published an impressively detailed report that for at least 18 months the police had been working up contingency assault plans and studying the Move bunker in photographic blowups. For weeks and possibly months, the paper said, police had been secretly testing various explosives, including Du Pont's Tovex TR-2, which was later used in the attack. While Sambor stuck to his contention that tests showed no reason to suppose Tovex would cause a fire, the Inquirer cited technical lore from Du Pont stating that a detonation would produce heat of from 3,000 degrees...
...When Du Pont wanted to trim its 100,000-employee U.S. work force last January, the company sought to avoid the hardship of layoffs by offering instead a generous early-retirement program. Du Pont estimated at the time that about 5,500 workers would cash in on the deal. But apparently the terms were far more attractive than the company realized. Du Pont plans to announce this week that about 12,000 workers intend to leave. This number is expected to include some highly talented employees whom the company would be sorry to lose. Du Pont's lucrative deal provided...
...Pont, like several other corporate giants, has been trimming its payroll because of increased productivity brought about by computers and other modern efficiencies. The company estimated that the retirement plan would cost $125 million in 1985 but could save $225 million in 1986. Yet the popularity of the program may cost more than expected. The company has had to offer bonuses to valued employees to keep them...
...dollar's rise, however, also has a darker side. It has made the products of U.S. firms more expensive abroad at the same time that they have to compete with lower prices for foreign goods at home. Complains Edward Jefferson, chairman of Du Pont: "Since 1980 the rise in the value of the dollar has put a 50% surcharge on all U.S. goods sold abroad, and a 50% subsidy on all imports...