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...Government maintained that the bribery scheme was by no means a closely held secret at Bethlehem. In the list of charges, the U.S. Attorney stated that the conspiracy was widely known within the company and that a number of Bethlehem shipyard managers knowingly engaged in the illegal payments...
...over Trident critics who fear that buying the system will weaken Britain's conventional forces. The Labor Party's shadow Defense Secretary, William Rodgers, told the Commons that "we simply cannot afford" Trident. But some Labor M.P.s cannot afford to attack the decision too hard: shipyard and electronics industries in their constituencies will benefit from the 200,000 new jobs that the Trident agreement is expected to create...
...Britain's national average. Foreign investment has been difficult to attract, and the Thatcher government, grappling with Britain's own recession, is hardly able to fill the gap. Last week Atkins announced that the government would have to pump an additional $153 million into the ailing Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff in a last-ditch effort to save 7,000 jobs. British public expenditures in Northern Ireland, including the cost of security operations, average $3,200 a year for each of Ulster's 1.5 million inhabitants-a burden the government is anxious to lighten...
...senior staffer with only slight exaggeration, Brown and Duncan became "fully interchangeable parts." Duncan, 52, had areas of special responsibility: the politically sensitive matter of "base realignments," the Defense Department's euphemism for shutting down unwanted military bases; the knotty problem of settling Navy claims against its shipyard contractors; and military aspects of the Panama Canal treaties. His manner is easygoing, and his conversation is spiced with Texas mannerisms ("Like my daddy used to say ..."). But he is also a tough businessman with little patience for the ways of bureaucrats. "Give me a straight shot...
...reactor can no longer contend that the chances of serious accident are so tiny as to be totally discounted. The radiation released was well below the Government's standards for safety, but cancer rates among people exposed to fallout from the atomic-bomb tests of the 1950s and shipyard workers who repair atom-powered vessels raise troubling questions about the long-run effects of supposedly "safe" radiation...