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Braniff hopes that its retrenchment will stanch losses of about $80 million that have piled up since the airline returned to the skies. To raise additional cash, the company will sell leases on nine of its twelve gates at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport for $20.5 million to archrival American, and plans to lease ten of its jets to Northeastern International Airways. Braniff Chairman Jay Pritzker hopes that the slimmed-down carrier will now be able to fly out of trouble, but the cuts may be the beginning of the end for the new Braniff...
...Reagan Administration is belatedly moving to stanch this immense intelligence drain. The President has quietly signed a document known as National Security Decision Directive No. 145. It gives overall responsibility for ensuring the security of communications in the Government and the defense industry to the National Security Agency (NSA), the secrecy-shrouded behemoth whose primary function since its founding in 1952 has been the collection and analysis of other nations' communication traffic. Under Reagan's directive, the NSA will search for ways of protecting the integrity of sensitive telecommunications and federal computer information, which increasingly are two interrelated...
...question of how and when those monstrous deficits will be paid off. Neither candidate has risked specifying all the budget cuts he would propose. When it comes to raising revenues, Reagan is sticking to the supply-side idea that, as the economy grows, tax collections will increase enough to stanch much of the red ink. Mondale believes that the go-go economic expansion is being bought with excessive Government debt that will drive up interest rates and, sooner or later, taxes...
...Reagan Administration has long claimed that many of the arms used by rebel forces in El Salvador are supplied by the Marxist-led Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Washington justifies its support of the antigovernment contra forces largely as a way to stanch this flow. Last week a former CIA analyst made the unsettling charge that for the past three years the agency has been unable to produce hard evidence that such shipments are still occurring...
...alleyway below the house, the Marines tried frantically to save the injured. Working in a pool of light cast by a Lebanese boy's flashlight, they applied dressings in a vain attempt to stanch the flow of blood from a stomach wound. When the man died, they moved quickly to help in treating the other casualties. "They kept encouraging a Marine who was wounded in the leg," recalled the boy, Nizar Nassib Kady, 16, whose family lived in the two-story residence underneath the Marine position. "They kept saying to him, 'Don't give up hope.' They were nervous...