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...those at some of the busiest traffic centers say they would have no objection. In fact, about 500 of the less militant PATCO members have been quietly rehired. Many airline pilots would like to see more of the former controllers brought back "with a wink and a nod" to strengthen the system. The pilots argue that the fired PATCO members bear few grudges against the recently hired people. "All this animosity is the rhetoric of 1981 and 1982," argues Jim Holtsclaw, manager of the FAA facility in Los Angeles...
...third candidate, President Khamene'i, is the only one who has remained unaffected by the U.S. affair. He has been the prime mover recently in Iran's somewhat improved relations with the Soviet Union and the resumption of natural-gas exports to Moscow. This is not likely to strengthen his chances for leadership. Since 1984, the Khomeini regime has arrested, imprisoned or executed most of the leaders of Tudeh, the Iranian Communist Party. The continued Soviet occupation of Muslim Afghanistan has intensified Iranian opposition to Moscow. Afghan refugees have poured into Iran bearing tales of Soviet brutality, and Iran...
Defense against out-of-state competition was probably on the mind of Republic Bank Chairman Gerald Fronterhouse, whose institution aims to strengthen its No. 2 position in Texas by acquiring Interfirst, the state's fourth largest bank. Said Fronterhouse, who will head the combined company: "This is a bank made by Texans for Texans." One challenge will be to help Interfirst dig out from under a $1.1 billion pile of sour energy loans and depressed real estate holdings...
...broached Kimche's ideas to Reagan in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the President was recuperating from colon surgery. Reagan saw the dangers of an arms-for-hostages swap, but also appreciated the value of new contact with Iran. He bought the idea that arms shipments would be intended to strengthen a group that might eventually be able to wean Iran away from support of terrorism. McFarlane called Kimche in Israel to say the U.S. was interested in seeing what he could work...
Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 said, at the time of her appointment, that Bane "will strengthen the school's capacity to address issues of domestic policy on management in such areas as human resources, poverty and human services...