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...object of this criticism is CIA Director Stansfield Turner, 55, who last week was being blamed by critics for the CIA'S failure to warn the White House months ago that Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was in danger of losing his throne. Only two days after the Shah went into exile, the House International Relations Committee began hearings on the Iran crisis and the CIA's inability to predict its outcome. Acknowledged a CIA official: "The agency will go through a wringer. We'll take our lumps...
...retired but can then sue, claiming that age was the only reason for the dismissal; the employer will then have to convince a jury that other factors were involved. As a result, bosses are planning to keep a closer watch on their older workers. Paradoxically, they may warn, demote or even talk into early retirement a 63-year-old, say, who is slipping. In the past, an employer could close his eyes to that worker's failing performance in the knowledge that the worker would be gone in two years anyway. Now, says Frank D. Sweeten, vice president...
...They warn Carter against budget cutting at the expense of the poor...
...requested some changes. Then, in a bizarre and even provocative gesture, the Israeli government announced that it was launching a $20 million program to "thicken," or beef up, five Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. The move was calculated by Begin and his colleagues to warn the Carter Administration that it must behave more circumspectly in its conduct of the peace negotiations, and the message got through. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance quickly rebuked the Begin government, saying that the U.S. considered the Israeli action "a very serious matter" and was "deeply disturbed...
...unrest stems from widespread disenchantment with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's economic policy, which has produced record levels of inflation and unemployment. At 2 a.m. on May 20, a telephone rings in the Elysee Palace. "This is not a joke," says a stern voice. "Please warn the President that if by 6 a.m. he has not freed the Corsican and Breton fighters arrested two days ago, we will blow up the Eiffel Tower...