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...cuts, met in early September with a group of first-term House Republicans and presented them with a fistful of newspaper clips about breaks that the new Congress had given to business. "We have to do something," he entreated them. "This is killing us." With prodding from Kasich, Bill Archer, the business-friendly chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is offering a response that has stunned colleagues from both parties. For months he had fended off efforts to eliminate corporate tax breaks. To do that, he said, would amount to a "back-door tax increase." Last week...
...report on Mark Whitacre, who acted as a whistle blower in an investigation into price fixing at the Archer Daniels Midland Co. [BUSINESS, Aug. 28], suggested that there were people in Decatur, Illinois, who considered Whitacre a villain. You inaccurately cited my letter to the local newspaper as representative of that view. My letter merely observed that Whitacre had violated the unwritten protective code of executive conduct shared by large multinational corporations. I also expressed sympathy for Whitacre and his family for what I thought they were about to experience as a result of what I presumed...
...mystery remained last week even after Whitacre, 38, recovered in a Chicago hospital. Why would a corporate whistle blower, who for the past 2 1/2 years had carried hidden tape recorders and cooperated with the fbi in an investigation into price fixing at the giant Archer Daniels Midland Co., decide to take his own life? Whitacre was certainly under pressure. ADM lashed out at him after the executive surfaced as an fbi mole in June, accusing him of stealing at least $2.5 million from the company. Was the suicide attempt a sign that he was guilty...
...Wall Street Journal reported that FBI videotapes of secret meetings between executives of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland and global competitors suggest a conspiracy to fix international prices on a popular food additive. The tapes were made possible by ADM executive Mark Whitacre, who was recently identified as a longtime FBI informant...
...false. He knows his anlaysis is false." Republican leaders challenged Clinton to present a plan to save Medicare within a week, though they gave themselves more time: "Republicans will have in 50 days a specific plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy," promised House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer. Other sources tell TIME Daily that the GOP will present its plan after Labor Day, in an attempt to limit opposition and debate and pass a bill to its liking...