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...Walker's telephones. On May 19, after hearing him talk about a special trip to Charlotte, N.C., agents watched his Chevrolet Astro van head north toward Potomac, Md., instead. According to trailing agents, Walker drove evasively, checking to see if he was being followed. He did in fact shake his pursuers for nearly three hours, but they luckily ran across him near Poolesville, Md. On a lonely country road, the agents saw him park near a tree posted with a NO HUNTING sign. He briefly got out of his van, then drove away. They watched for nearly an hour...
Detente, with its scientific exchanges and increased East-West trade, was an enormous windfall for the Soviets. Pentagon officials still shake their heads over the guile of Soviet engineers who, as they toured a U.S. aircraft factory during the 1970s, would wear sticky-soled shoes to pick up metal filings. When the U.S. sent young scholars to Moscow to study Slavic languages, the Soviets exchanged "graduate students" who were often middle-age technocrats with a more than academic interest in microcircuitry. A huge truck factory built in the Soviet Kama region with U.S. financing and know-how, all acquired aboveboard...
...hard driving as a drilling rig, resisted with deep anger and tenacity T. Boone Pickens' attempt to take over his company. Last April, when the two men met in a Washington corridor while waiting to testify about takeovers before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hartley refused to shake his adversary's hand. This was no sporting contest; this...
After taking a snooze during the winter, the U.S. economy now appears ready to shake off its lethargy and get moving again. That was the optimistic forecast of TIME's Board of Economists, which met last week in Washington. The members see the U.S. economy growing at a solid 3% annual rate for the rest of the year...
...Within minutes the odd couple was whisked off, in separate limousines, to say it all again on ABC's Good Morning America, and then again for the CBS Morning News. On CBS's show, effervescent Co-Anchor Phyllis George ended her interview by calling on Dotson and Webb to shake hands, and they did, limply. But then George added, "How about a hug?" The astonished Dotson and Webb declined. In light of the continuing assertion of Illinois officials that Dotson is guilty, George's hug suggestion was inappropriate, to say the least. George later explained to Washington Post TV Critic...