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...unusual campaign, pitting two candidates trained in science against each other. Ray, 66, was a professor of zoology before joining the Atomic Energy Commission, which she headed in 1973-74; McDermott, 43, is a psychiatrist who continued treating patients to supplement his $9,600-a-year legislative salary until after he began his run for Governor in April. From the start, Ray was the issue...
...million bakery has been under discussion since November 1978, when Chinese officials told visiting U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland that they wanted to supplement their country's staples-rice, noodles and dumplings-with more convenient Western bakery products. Echoing the traditional complaint of the American housewife, the Chinese are concerned that workers spend too much time in the kitchen. Under an agreement reached last month, U.S. Wheat Associates will spend about $700,000 from grower contributions and Agriculture Department funds to equip the new Peking bakery...
...terms of what they perceive as dangerously rising tensions in the Middle East and, particularly, the impasse they suspect is being caused by election-year politics in the U.S. Explained British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, obviously trying to soften the seeming rebuke to Carter: "We really are trying to supplement what the U.S. is doing, to do something very, very positive-to stop talking just in a few abstract terms and try to clothe those terms with practical reality. And we'll do it, as always, in partnership...
That moderation may end when Julien takes charge. Editor of the paper's monthly supplement Le Monde Diplomatique since 1973, Julien is further to the left and more virulently anti-American than almost any other senior journalist on the staff. The son of a railway worker, he was educated in the U.S. at the University of Notre Dame, and joined Le Monde as a foreign news editor in 1951. His favorite editorial litany, honed to perfection in front-page editorials at Diplomatique, concerns the revolutionary struggle of Latin America to escape American influence. Says a longtime rival: "Julien turned...
...most serious problems, although it would not give everyone a raise across the board. To retain pilots, for example, flight pay, which currently ranges from 5100 to $245 extra per month, would be increased 25%; to compensate sailors for the hardship of lengthy family separations, the monthly sea pay supplement of $25 to $55 would be boosted 15%. Among its other features, the bill would increase the 100-a-mile travel allowance payments to 18.50 for personnel transferred to new posts, and the basic $15,000 bonus ceiling for re-enlisting for three years would be hiked...