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Since late last year, Berezovsky has been deputy secretary of Russia's security council, the top-level body that coordinates defense and security issues. He will play a major role if Yeltsin's continuing ill health leads to a political crisis. If the Russian political establishment ever concludes that the President is too infirm to remain in office, Berezovsky will be intimately involved in that decision...
...high-tech manufacturers such as IBM and South Korea's Samsung. (The electronics giant broke ground last year on a $1.3 billion semiconductor plant with a Texas-size rodeo and hoedown.) Such employers are looking to hire 15,000 people this year, notably experienced programmers and top-level managers. Entry-level slots are also available: high school grads with some technical training can pull down $26,000 to $28,000 a year as technicians at semiconductor plants, and pocket $40,000 after four or five years...
...benefits of having more lab space and secure financial backing. "It was still a risky venture," he remembers. "Marty Hirsch said, 'You're crazy. This is New York City. The politics will eat you up.'" But for Ho, the chance to do what he wanted, and to attract top-level scientists to join him, was too good to pass...
...that would still be far less than the $2.5 million that Moscow sent to Ames over the years. But Nicholson may have been at the start of a beautiful friendship with the Russians. With one more promotion at work he would have had access to the kind of top-level agency secrets that Moscow lost when Ames went down. "I think this fellow was on the way to becoming a big spy for the Russians," says a senior CIA official. "He could have done us serious damage...
...California strategy grew out of a series of top-level conversations that began last month. Along with Barbour and Gingrich, the chief backers of the plan have been Dole's campaign Californians: running mate Kemp and consultants John Sears and Ken Kachigian, plus Merksamer. On Oct. 12, the candidate finally signed on during a long meeting at his Washington headquarters. By the time of his debate with Clinton the following Wednesday night, Dole was salting his remarks with references to California's hot-button issues: affirmative action, illegal immigration and defense-spending cuts...