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Chase plays the father, Clark W. Griswold, who is not content with merely flying to California. He plans the entire trip on his personal computer, and is determined to experience Americana by hopping into the old tank of a station wagon and riding down the highway with sentimental music on the radio...
...form of hundreds of documents provided by Carlos Vieira de Mello, an international arms dealer who worked with the purported rug merchant, Hashemi. TIME has also examined secret records from the State Department's Office of Munitions Control and papers from private arms companies showing that U.S. tank engines and fighter-plane spares were routed to Iran through Canada and Britain. The records indicate that much of the trade is directed from London...
...arms sales, but the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin responded that it had sold Iran only $300,000 worth of spare tires for F-4 fighter planes. It promised, in any event, to stop all future military sales. Yet, according to U.S. intelligence sources, Israel was also selling tank parts and ammunition to Iran. In 1981, after the release of the U.S. hostages, Israel resumed its military sales to Iran without Washington's approval...
...issue came to a head early last year, when Fairchild and Intel Corp., another local chipmaker, reported two major leaks in as many months. At the Fairchild plant in San Jose, workers discovered that a faulty storage tank had discharged some 13,000 gal. of a mildly carcinogenic solvent called TCA into the underground water supply. A few weeks later, Intel announced that a concrete vault had leaked, and that traces of a strong carcinogen, TCE, had turned up in a farmer's well near by. Fairchild has spent $10 million cleaning up its spill, and the company steadfastly...
...Kahn left Rand to help form his own think tank, the Hudson Institute, on bucolic acreage north of New York City. He kept his umbilical cord of contracts with the Pentagon; approximately half of the institute's $3.6 million annual budget comes from Government contracts. But he also branched out to ponder other societal problems. Among the studies being pursued: prospects for electronic transmission of mail, ways to win a war in El Salvador, alternatives to the federal income tax, the strength of the Soviet navy. On a typical day, Kahn moved from seminars to informal discussions spouting such...