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...argued with on both counts. The Soviets held no clear overall superiority in 1980, and the U.S. has made no decisive gains in the Reagan years (see chart). When Reagan took office, the Soviet Union could deliver 7,925 nuclear warheads against the U.S., according to calculations made by Rand Corp. Analyst Edward Warner. Nearly four years later, that total had grown to 8,700. During the same period, the number of strategic U.S. warheads has gone from 10,034 to 11,140. (Because of different methods of determining how many warheads are deployed at any time, the counts vary...
What particularly rattles Chairman Rand Araskog, 53, is that the plotters could be getting help from some of his own colleagues. Last week Edward Gerrity Jr., ITT's public relations chief since 1961, admitted that the company had suspended him after accusing him of feeding bad news to the financial press. Sources at the Securities and Exchange Commission, meanwhile, confirmed that the agency is investigating whether someone outside the company is breeding rumors about ITT in order to make an illicit stock profit...
...women's struggle for pay equity is a pin that reads simply "59?." It represents the longstanding average pay earned by women for every dollar earned by men. That is changing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the figure is now 64?. A report by the Rand Corp., an independent California think tank, says the change is due to women's improved education and experience, which are being compensated in the free market,"rather than legislation, Government commissions or political movements" The report also argues that one reason average women's wages have not risen more...
...canceling, the offer of space-weapons talks in Vienna. "If they had really wanted negotiations, they didn't go about it in a way that would lead to negotiations," says a Western diplomat in Moscow. "They really couldn't say no this time." Observes Arnold Horelick, a Rand Corp. expert on the Soviet Union: "The Kremlin leaders are sensitive about being depicted as sulking, hunkered down and petulant. It would have been awkward for the Soviet leadership to turn down such an invitation...
...anniversary of the Soweto riots. Two days later another explosion hit an electrical substation 65 miles to the northwest of the city. At almost the same time, police discovered a powerful limpet mine, made of plastic explosives, that had been placed in the building that houses the Rand Supreme Court in downtown Johannesburg. Bomb-disposal experts carried the device to the lawn outside the building, where it was detonated, blowing out plate-glass windows and buckling leaded glass in one courtroom...