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Paradise is usually in the eyes of the beholder, but for South Florida Developer Fred Bischoff, 42, this is it: Paradise Lakes Resort, a 184-unit, 40-acre retreat 17 miles north of Tampa. It advertises a healthful, family atmosphere, with lighted tennis and volleyball courts, an Olympic-size, 1,500-sq.-ft. swimming pool, a restaurant, two bars, a lake and a bandshell for outdoor concerts. Tenants include doctors, lawyers, teachers and clergymen. But a certain protocol must be observed. "Overt sexual behavior is unacceptable," says Bischoff. Visitors generally carry towels around to sit on "for hygiene, courtesy...
Joining in the search were three men from Britain's crack Special Air Service, the unit best known for its daring rescue in May 1980 of hostages held in the Iranian embassy in London. The four teams of trackers, occasionally crawling on hands and knees, were able for a time to follow the kidnapers' trail through the bush, but lost the track after local tribesmen drove heir cattle through the area. The government suspects that the villagers were trying to protect the abductors. Indeed, he kidnapers were reportedly hidden overnight by a member of Nkomo's Zimbabwe...
Ironically, the outcome of the semiconductor contest could be affected by two giant American companies that have never sold a chip: IBM and the Western Electric unit of AT&T. They make millions of chips, but use them internally to build such finished products as computers and telephone switching equipment. IBM produces more 64K RAM chips than all the world's semiconductor firms combined. The company's manufacturing process for the 64K achieves a phenomenal 60% yield of perfect chips, compared with a maximum of 50% claimed by the Japanese...
Shortly before the July 4 recess, however, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas got the Republican-controlled unit to approve, by a party-line vote of 11 to 9, a bill that would raise taxes for individuals and businesses by $21.1 billion in fiscal 1983, and by $98.6 billion over the next three years. President Reagan last week gave his blessing; White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the bill preserved "the basics of our economic program." Members of both parties expect that the Senate will pass the bill virtually intact shortly after it reconvenes this week...
...display parts of one type of the weapon that it claimed had been found in Lebanon. The U.S. had provided the Israelis with two models of the bomb, both of which work on the same principle. The Mark 20 Rockeye scatters eight-inch steel darts and the Cluster Bomb Unit 58 sprays bomblets armed with a charge that explodes on impact (see diagram). Because the bombs indiscriminately blast an area several hundred feet in diameter, they are clearly unsuited for use in civilian neighborhoods...