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...business this season has been the wild-eyed flinging of dollar bills in the general direction of Washington. Bantam has paid "about" $1 million to Geraldine Ferraro for Ferraro: My Story, due in October; Simon & Schuster "more or less" $1 million to Jeane Kirkpatrick for her U.N. memoirs; and Random House $1 million to House Speaker Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill...
...deskbound clerks, translators and minor functionaries who spend years in decidedly unglamorous jobs in which they are privy to information more valued than their self-esteem. Last week, in separate cases, three of those faceless employees were charged with peddling American secrets to foreign agents. The harvest was apparently random; the only thread was that all were, in the words of one former intelligence official, "tawdry little people who sell their souls for a few thousand bucks." But their apprehension brought to ten the number of spy arrests this year--a number that seems to be growing--and heightened worries...
Critics are concerned that the drive to eradicate drugs is violating individual rights. In San Francisco the board of supervisors passed a city ordinance last year prohibiting random drug tests by any employer, after Southern Pacific ordered 600 workers to provide urine samples for testing. The company had fired the only employee who refused to cooperate...
NATION: Are America's supercarriers the weapon of the future or a throwback? 14 In a time of random violence and global tension, the U.S. projects power overseas with a fleet of formidable but vulnerable flattops. Reagan scraps two submarines to comply with SALT II, while a new mobile missile is studied. The furor intensifies over Michael Deaver's influence peddling. Nevada Senator and Reagan Pal Paul Laxalt cautiously eyes the presidency...
...Tomas was sitting at her bedroom window in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. She was putting on her makeup when a bullet came through the window and hit her just above the left eye. Tomas, who had just started high school, was the innocent victim of a random gang shooting. After visiting her in the hospital, L.A.'s new mayor, James Hahn, put up a $25,000 reward for information on the crime. "If a young girl can't stay in her bedroom safely," he says, "we are in terrible shape...