Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today visitors to Wal-Mart's plain, red brick offices in Bentonville soon get an insight into how Walton manages to offer such low prices. The company's frugal quarters are outfitted like a bus station, complete with plastic seats. The chairman's office, covered in bargain-basement paneling, is appointed mostly with strewn-about books and computer printouts...
...warning to radio stations about the use of offensive language and material on the air is an insult to the public (NATION, April 27). Americans should be allowed to decide on their own what is indecent. When they are , offended by what they hear, listeners can change the station or turn off the radio...
...official ties may be tightened as Lewis Tambs, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, is asked about working with North to get Costa Rica to keep a secret contra airstrip operating. The CIA station chief in Costa Rica, recently identified as Joseph Fernandez, will be quizzed about the contras and which of his CIA superiors was aware of his activities...
...Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, at least five fire-bomb attacks took place last week against commuter trains, and an explosion ripped apart the rail line at Soweto's Nancefield Station, preventing thousands of black officeworkers from reaching their jobs in Johannesburg. The violence grew out of a six-week-long strike by 16,000 black transport workers...
...Navy, however, has delayed bringing charges against two more Marines: Sergeant John Weirick, held on suspicion of espionage; and a former Moscow embassy guard who was returned to Quantico, Va., from his station in Brasilia. The fourth Marine and "several others" are still cooperating with probers. Nevertheless, one investigator concedes, "we're not finding quite the corroboration in Marine testimony that we expected...