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NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS [Abstract] |
Non-controlling interests share in income (loss) [Table Text Block] | The composition of the net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests (“NCI”) is as follows:
|  | Three months ended March 31,
|  | 2012 |  | 2013
Net income attributable to NCI in DSIT |  | $ | 8 |  |  | $ | 21 |
Net loss attributable to NCI in USSI |  | (264 | ) |  | (233 | )
Net loss attributable to NCI |  | $ | (256 | ) |  | $ | (212 | )

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