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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hazeltine Corp., a defense electronics company based on Long Island, N.Y., became one of Parkin's clients. Hazeltine was competing for a deal to supply devices to test IFF (identification, friend or foe) equipment used on Navy planes. It agreed to pay Parkin $24,000 a year for any marketing information related to IFF that he could gather...
...odds against passing the exams are daunting. In New York, more than 15,600 cops are vying for an anticipated 2,500 sergeant vacancies, and 2,600 sergeants for 600 lieutenant slots. "Either you pass the test and get promoted, or you stay a cop for history," says Officer Michael Corr, 33. Corr took the sergeant's exam when it was last given in 1983. He failed by 3 points, losing the promotion with its $44,000 sergeant's pay -- $10,000 above a patrolman's maximum. If he misses again, the next round will probably not come...
Across the country, other police officers face the same ordeal. In San Francisco only twelve of the 80 officers who sweated through the ten-hour captain's exam in December made it. In Phoenix 37 crammed for up to two years for last April's lieutenant's test. Among them was Sergeant Lee Bennington, 46, who has taken the exam six times since 1972. This time he put in some 700 hours over twelve months, drilling with 3,000 homemade flashcards -- and passed. In Washington 1,187 who took May 21 officers' exams still await results...
...part of its war on drugs, the U.S. reached an agreement with Peru to test Spike's effectiveness on its cocaine crop. The State Department wants to supply Peru with the herbicide for an eradication project in the Upper Huallaga Valley, along the eastern Andes, where much of the world's coca is grown. Peru would get the assistance; Lilly would get the order; and the coca would get annihilated...
...State Department has accused Lilly of going AWOL in the war against narcotics. U.S. officials say the crucial test for Spike will be conducted in the Andes over the next 90 days and insist that no decision should be made until then. In a press conference last week, Ann Wrobleski, Assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics, asserted that the Upper Huallaga Valley "is not suitable for crops. Peasants moved into the valley to grow coca, period." She pointed out that the cocaine traffickers, who use the area to process the raw leaf into cocaine paste, have inflicted the most...