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...technology is the largest growth industry" in espionage, says Edward O'Malley, an FBI assistant director in charge of the intelligence division. Some recent examples: a Northrop engineer pleaded guilty in March to attempting to transmit Stealth technology to the Soviets for $55,000; the husband of a worker at a Silicon Valley defense firm used his wife's access to sell high-tech documents on ballistic-missile research to Polish intelligence for some $250,000; and in a trial that began last Friday in Los Angeles, Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov, two Soviet émigrés, are accused of attempting...
FRANCE. Jean-Marie Chevalier sees no safe way to improve much on his country's present, relatively slow 1.1% annual growth rate. Like Giersch, he believes the remedy lies in reforms aimed at bringing about more flexibility in wages, more incentives for entrepreneurs and more worker retraining. Chevalier was encouraged by his government's gradual progress in ending France's trade deficit and reducing its budget deficit. The cost of servicing the nation's foreign debt has stopped an upward climb, although it now stands at $11 billion a year. Proctivity in 1984 rose by a strong 5%. Industrial investment...
...from Bakersfield, Calif. The bees are believed to have hitched a ride north on drilling equipment shipped from Latin America. The killers are no more venomous than domestic bees, but they are easily provoked and attack in great numbers. They were first reported in California by an oil-field worker who watched aghast as a swarm of the bees stung a rabbit to death. California authorities killed the invaders with an insecticide...
Today marks the fifth day of a sit-in at Washington University held by Student Worker Alliance (SWA), a labor rights group, in protest of the low wages paid to the university’s workers. Student protestors have occupied Brookings Hall since Monday—the college admissions office—and they have pledged not to leave until the University creates a living wage program...
Living wage, the premise that a full-time worker should be able to afford housing and basic needs, is defined for the city of St. Louis as $9.79 an hour with full benefits. According to the protestors, groundskeepers and maintenance workers are currently paid about $8 per hour...