Word: bechtel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Named for Mary Harris Jones, a turn-of-the-century labor organizer, Mother Jones pursues corporate miscreants with a vigor that would have made her proud. It has linked Bechtel Corp. with the CIA (a charge denied by the company), exposed the dangers of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine contraceptive device, and in 1977 was the first publication to allege that Ford chose not to redesign a faulty fuel system in its 1971-76 Pintos. Just four years old, Mother Jones won its third National Magazine Award in April for a story about how products banned in the U.S. as unsafe...
...Bechtel and other administrators said they opposed the keeping of lists and added that the university would not now keep such a list...
Several security gaurds said they compiled the lists at the requests of Thomas Bechtel, dean of undergraduate counseling in the midst of demonstrations calling for divestiture...
Brown officials said they did not know of any such list. Bechtel and James Lyons, director of security, said they could not remember anything about a list...