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...Cortland apples have been ripe for six weeks, ready to be trucked to markets round the country or sold to nearby roadside stands. Last week as the harvest drew to an end, growers were hard pressed to gather in their crop?worth more than $50 million to them???before the fruit started spoiling and dropping to the ground. The weather and the Federal Government had, in the Northeastern farmers' view, conspired to make this a doubly difficult year. A snowstorm last spring destroyed blossoms. Heavy rains in September made picking nearly impossible and knocked an estimated 10% of the crop...
Munro may now be in line for another reprimand. The cause: a stinging seven-part series on human rights in China?or the lack of them???that has run in the Globe and seven U.S. dailies. In this series, Munro's China appears as an Orwellian hell where a citizen can still be executed merely for "preaching counterrevolutionary slogans," where freedom of movement and career choice are all but nonexistent, and where authorities discriminate against relatives of former petty landowners. In one telling vignette, Munro writes of a man who insists that local postal clerks read his letters...
Brown's chief defense against such mistakes is a scientist's reverence for facts. Because he detests canned, military-style briefings, he insists on reading the background studies and documents himself before making a decision. As he zips through them???nearly as fast, it sometimes seems, as a computer scans punch cards?he pencils questions and comments along the margins in his almost microscopic handwriting. Next he peppers the Pentagon's experts with still more questions, until he is satisfied that he has squeezed the subject dry. "No one can snow him," boasts an aide...
...Mayor George Moscone: "I'm going to work my ass off for him, but like everybody else, I don't know that much about him." Added Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, a liberal: "I tend to see blood, sweat and toil issues. I don't know what Carter thinks about them???if he does...
There are few basic requirements for the job. Applicants?there are now a few women among them???must be 21, graduates of a four-year institution and in excellent physical condition. Aspirants take the Treasury law enforcement entrance examinations, which test powers of observation along with basic knowledge. The highest scorers are tapped by the Service as vacancies occur and start at salaries ranging from $8,500 to $10,520 a year, depending on their prior experience. Recruits take a basic two-month course in criminology, surveillance and firearms use at a former military camp in Georgia. Next come another...