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...Correspondent Dick Thompson were reporting this week's cover stories on the city, on-scene preparations for TIME's convention coverage were being made by Olivia Stewart, a former bureau secretary who has returned to take up such duties as renting a fleet of 25 cars to transport people, film and copy through the jammed streets. To serve as drivers, she has recruited off-duty fire fighters. Says she: "They know the city and how to get around it fast better than almost anyone." Her opinion may be a bit biased: the fire-fighter driver pool includes...
...week. Pentagon Whistle Blower A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a management systems deputy for the Air Force, had been called to testify before Iowa Senator Charles Grassley's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Fitzgerald, fired in 1970 after he disclosed huge cost overruns on the Lockheed C-5A military transport, was restored to his original Pentagon job in 1982 under court order. He complained to the Senate panel that he has been denied access to data needed to perform his duties, a charge that the Air Force denied...
...mention of Andrei Sakharov's name in French, Chernenko's hand went up to his ear and he looked puzzled. Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, who was seated next to French Transport Minister Charles Fiterman, one of four Communists in Mitterrand's Cabinet, uttered an audible sigh of impatience. When the Russian translation was read by the interpreter, a stir crossed the hall. But Chernenko did not even smile ironically, and 55 minutes later the banquet was over...
Intelligence sources also showed that the temple had become a haven for smugglers who had helped the militants finance their arms buildup through the transport and sale of heroin, hashish, and stolen gold, silver and jewels. Furthermore, reports claimed, the smugglers took Sikh extremists into secret camps in Pakistan and in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, where they received military training. Mrs. Gandhi has not accused the Pakistani government of complicity in the Sikh extremist movement, which the Pakistanis have denied anyway...
...Birdy, Dad and A Midnight Clear, is himself an American painter who lived many years in Paris, so it is no surprise that his street scenes and descriptions of the painterly process are vividly authentic. His chapter on Scum's attempt to paint a self-portrait that would transport him out of the temporal dimension makes a stirring set piece. But his identification with his character is so complete that the novel seems to be spun from their shared fantasy fulfillment. Difficulties give way before Scum. Whatever he needs comes conveniently to hand, whether building materials, a rich...