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...Associate Chief Douglas Leisz. So, in fact, do the five deputy chiefs below Leisz, the eight associate deputy chiefs below them, and almost half of the 35 staff directors below the associate deputy chiefs. In all, 177 people at the Forest Service are at that salary level. Says Kenneth Rashid, a Consumer Product Safety Commission official: "Only a committed Marxist could love a system where everybody makes the same amount of money. It simply stifles ambition and creativity and hard work...
...city dominated by drab architecture and numerous construction projects, Baghdad these days bears no resemblance to the legendary home of Harun al Rashid and A Thousand and One Nights. Although the battlefronts along the Shaft al Arab are more than 300 miles away, Iranian aircraft have brought the war to the Iraqi capital with repeated bombing raids against military and industrial targets. TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart and Correspondent Adam Zagorin report on the mood of the city...
...from the front lines recounted boastful tales of Iranians fleeing before their artillery barrages, while the television pumped out scenes of Iraqi attacks to martial music and announced the claim that Ahwaz, 45 miles into Iran, had just been captured. "Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day," boasted Captain Abu Rashid, beaming proudly in his black beret and crisp green fatigues. "But victory will be ours...
...British correspondent who accompanied the Queen and Prince Philip on the tour, Elizabeth was "slightly stunned" by the lavishness of the gifts bestowed on her by welcoming sheiks and princes. In Dubai, for example, the Queen gave "a little gasp" when she opened her present from Sheik Rashid: a necklace studded with sapphires surrounded by 300 diamonds, with matching earrings and ring. That was in addition to a solid gold tray, on which stood a pair of solid gold camels beneath two solid gold palm trees. Bahrain gave her a solid gold palm tree, 18 inches high, that was hung...
...consumer helpers were also only dimly aware of each other until the conference. "These people are so damn excited to see each other that they stay up most of the night talking," reported a bleary-eyed Ken Rashid, an official of the federal Consumer Products Safety Commission. In the bars, halls and hospitality suites of the Corning Hilton, Action Lines told each other their troubles. Not their troubles, mind you, but other people...