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They could indeed. The new revelations, forced out by a Senate subcommittee headed by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, named those in high places who got some of the $22 million to $24 million that Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has said it paid to spur sales of its aircraft overseas. The major repercussions...
...Netherlands, the government publicly identified Prince Bernhard, husband of Queen Juliana, as the "high Dutch official" to whom Lockheed had admitted funneling a total of $1.1 million between 1961 and 1972. The prince, who is a director of Fokker Aircraft Co. and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, denied having received any Lockheed bribes; the Dutch Cabinet hastily appointed a special commission to investigate. Should the charges against Bernhard be proved true, his wife may be forced to abdicate as Queen?rocking the Dutch nation, where the monarchy is extremely popular...
...with these revelations came some less grave?but still nasty?ones. In Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways fired its director of flight operations, E.B. ("Bernie") Smith. Only two weeks ago, he was pictured in four-color ads in U.S. magazines, describing Lockheed's Super-TriStar as "the most intelligent aircraft I've ever flown." But Cathay Pacific found that Smith was the official identified in Church subcommittee documents as receiving $80,000 in Lockheed money from an "unidentified British agent living in France." He got the payment for helping Lockheed sell planes to other lines...
After the war, the by now tremendously popular "fighting prince" transformed himself into an immensely useful "salesman prince." He joined the boards of several companies, including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Hoogovens Steel and Fokker Aircraft, and began a new career as globetrotting good-will ambassador and ardent promoter of Dutch exports. Former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek called him "the best commercial traveler I've ever met-and in Brazil we meet them...
Public Verdict. Who is right in the nuclear debate? Or in the arguments over aerosol sprays and supersonic aircraft and their effects on the ozone layer? Or in the controversy surrounding food additives and cancer? Too often those who must ultimately decide these issues are likely to be swayed by rhetoric rather than by scientific fact because there is no easy way to sort out the facts in arguments between scientists. Physicist Arthur Kantrowitz, 62, thinks that he has a solution to the dilemma. Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory in Everett, Mass., and one of the key engineers...