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...more immediate threat came from an unusual alliance between two Senators who are normally opposed on oil issues. Louisiana's J. Bennett Johnston, who proudly calls himself "a friend of oil," and Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum, a persistent industry critic, united behind a bill to impose a six-month moratorium on acquisitions by the 50 largest oil companies. Because the measure would be retroactive, it could put on hold both the Socal-Gulf and Mobil-Superior deals...
...designated attaché to the Summer Games. Yermishkin, who served as a first secretary at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1973 to 1977, was later tabbed as having been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles as a clumsy provocation. "He's a spook, a rather bad spook," said one State Department official. Explained another: "If they had wanted to slip in ringers at the Games, this was not a good way to begin it." Officials said that the U.S. would gladly...
Lennox, 65, smoothed relations with the United Auto Workers, whom McCardell had infuriated during a six-month strike, and got them to accept a 29-month contract that saved the company $200 million. Lennox also consolidated many plant operations, concentrating manufacturing muscle on Harvester's most profitable products, especially trucks. Staff cuts lowered the worldwide work force to 32,455 at the end of 1983, from 65,640 two years earlier. Even office space at the company's Chicago headquarters was slashed from twelve floors to 7½, while the corporate staff withered to 600, from...
...third time in as many weeks, national security forces went on alert, surrounding Guatemala City and searching cars on highways leading into the capital. The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores to power. Although the day passed without any protest or disruption, the heightened security and the absence of any official celebration underscored the extreme uneasiness felt by the government of Central America's most populous (7.9 million) republic. As in neighboring El Salvador, a leftist insurgency poses a permanent challenge...
Wagner refused to speculate on what he would do at the end of the six-month long fellowship, but friends say they wouldn't be surprised to see him spend a number of years teaching before returning to government, maybe on a state or national level...