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Only three months earlier. IBM security men helped the FBI pull off another sting by nabbing five employees of Hitachi, Ltd., and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., two leading Japanese electronics firms. They were accused of conspiring to transport stolen IBM property out of the U.S. In the same investigation, a middle manager of National Advanced Systems, a subsidiary of California-based National Semiconductor Corp., was arrested for receiving stolen goods. Last week IBM filed suit against Hitachi and National Semiconductor, charging them with unfair competition through the use of confidential IBM materials...
...Sting II came as a shock because the three employees dismissed last week were very highly placed in the company and had broad access to classified material. The accused: Lewis Eggebrecht, a senior engineer who was chief architect of the IBM personal computer, the company's fastest seller; Peter Stearns, another senior engineer, who headed an important product-development team; and William Erdman. an office-systems product-line manager...
...measure,* and it did so in impressive numbers: the vote in the House was 301 to 117-22 more than the two-thirds needed for an override; in the Republican-controlled Senate the tally was 60 to 30, exactly the required margin. But if the rebuke was supposed to sting, the White House appeared surprisingly unruffled. "We're going to have a lot more chances, 'cause I'm going to do a lot more vetoing," said a feisty Reagan as he campaigned for Republican candidates in Utah last Friday. "Any time there is an attempt to bust...
...charade worked brilliantly. Haiducu was able to return to Rumania and arrange for the departure of all but one of his family. Indeed, days before the spy-sting story broke in the Parisian press, newspapers in Bucharest reported that he had officially been commended for "out standing public service...
ENGAGED. Mac Davis, 40, singer and writer of winsome pop-country tunes (Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me, It's Hard to Be Humble) and sometime movie star (North Dallas Forty, The Sting II); and Lisa Kristen Gerard, 24, a registered nurse; in Los Angeles...