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...which supplies the Government with everything from washing machines and light bulbs to engines for the B-1B bomber and nuclear reactors for ships, is determined to retain its share of the defense budget. The Fairfield, Conn.- based company, which in addition to the suspension faces a fine of more than $1 million if found guilty on all 108 counts of the indictment, denies there was any criminal wrongdoing. The alleged fraud occurred between January 1980 and April 1983 while the company was refurbishing Minuteman warheads. One of the contracts on the $47 million project included a "fixed price incentive...
Meanwhile, policymakers in Tokyo outraged the Reagan Administration and Congress by what seemed at first to be an effort to please them. The source of the tension: an announcement that the Japanese would retain quotas on the number of cars exported to the U.S. That move deeply disturbed the White House because Reagan last month had invited Tokyo to drop the quotas in the hope that Japan would respond by opening its markets to American products. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "It's the President's position that export restraints are not an acceptable substitute for market opening...
...right-wing idea of "rolling back" Communism. But with a difference. This is not the reckless--and toothless--call for reclaiming the core Soviet possessions in Eastern Europe, which the Soviets claim for self-defense and, more important, which they are prepared to use the most extreme means to retain. This is a challenge to the peripheral acquisitions of empire...
What if, Kushner asked, a loud noise interrupted their presentation? What could they say to retain attention...
Prosecutors are using one new ploy to hamper gangsters' ability to retain legal talent. They are invoking the forfeiture provisions of drug and racketeering laws to seize any attorney fees paid with illgotten gains. In a Colorado case last month, a federal judge disallowed such seizures, saying they violate a defendant's right to the legal representation of his choice. But last week in New York, another federal judge allowed prosecutors to subpoena information about the source of the fee paid to a lawyer in a narcotics case. Said Judge David Edelstein: "In the same manner that a defendant cannot...