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...Guatemala the Israelis have sold the government everything from antiterrorism equipment to transport planes. Army outposts in the jungle have become near replicas of Israeli army field camps. At one such outpost in Huehuetenango, Colonel Gustavo Menendez Herrera points out that his troops are using Israeli communications equipment, mortars, submachine guns, battle gear and helmets...
...addition, she said, a new decision to allow nurses' aides to transport patients has left the medical staff with more time for substantive patient care...
...Bradley is a behemoth, so wide that it cannot readily fit into the standard C-141 military transport plane; it has to be partially disassembled. Its 5½-in.-thick armor adds some protection, but on the battlefield, critics charge, the vehicle would be a death trap. Its width and excessive height (10 ft.) offer an inviting target to enemy gunners. At times it even has to be a stationary target: the Bradley must come to a complete stop to fire its antitank missile. Its 25-mm gun also has a problem: it is said to be highly inaccurate...
...carrier noted that competition has forced it to set fares throughout most of its system that are less than the cost of providing the seats. Adds Neil Effman, a TWA senior vice president: "If these discounts continue, there will have to be fewer carriers in the U.S. air transport industry by the end of the year." In a sense, that is an unspoken purpose of the discounting game: to force the weakest airlines to go bankrupt, leaving fewer seats and more customers for the survivors to share...
...federal court in San Francisco last week, Hitachi pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport stolen IBM secrets to Japan. The company was fined $10,000, Hayashi $10,000 and another employee $4,000. The $24,000 in fines struck some observers as a bit light. Conceding that the costs of setting up the Japanscam were far greater than that, Assistant U.S. Attorney Herbert Hoffman added: "But then we don't run criminal investigations on a cost-effective basis. Justice has been accomplished." Also, Hitachi is out of pocket considerably more than $24,000. The $622,000 that Hitachi paid...