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...result of an austerity plan approved before the outgoing chairman's downfall. But then in October came 400 more, decreed by Tisch, followed by an additional 100 in November. The firings have hit every level, but the highest-ranking casualties of all came early in Tisch's reign with the September removal of CBS Publishing President Peter Derow and 14 of his assistants. As a CBS News employee with 14 years' experience puts it, the feeling is that "we're all vulnerable...
...drama started in 1981, just after Reagan came into office, when U.S. officials learned that Israel was ignoring the 1979 American ban on the sale of arms to Iran. At the time Iran badly needed spare parts for the American-made weapons it had acquired during the Shah's reign. In their hour of need the Iranians looked to Israel, which had also supplied weapons to the Shah...
...early 1985 Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi businessman, entered the picture. Khashoggi fostered ties to two Israeli arms merchants: Yaacov Nimrodi, a former army colonel and longtime Israeli military attache in Tehran during the Shah's reign; and Al Schwimmer, the founding president of Israel Aircraft Industries and a close friend of then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk...
...usher, but no one can be taught to lift a team the way Joe Montana raised the 49ers 55 days after back surgery. "Armies work hard for Lancelot," Guard Randy Cross says, "harder for King Arthur." At 38, oft- deposed Raider Jim Plunkett keeps coming back to reign in Los Angeles...
Shadowy Middle Eastern groups like the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners were apparently responsible for the September reign of terror. But not this time. Discovered in the Raspail Metro station near the scene of the murder were leaflets printed with the five- pointed star of Action Directe, a home-grown, radical leftist terrorist group that is committed to waging urban guerrilla war against "bourgeois imperialism." The tracts claimed responsibility for the shooting in the name of Action Directe "Commando Pierre Overney," a Maoist worker who was killed by police in 1972 during labor strife outside...