Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consisting of depositions from many of the principals involved in the scandal, focuses on a plan to undermine the Daily Mail and other opposition newspapers by secretly subsidizing a new, pro-government tabloid, the Johannesburg Citizen. In 1976, says the report, the department provided a fertilizer company directed by Businessman Louis Luyt, 46, with $15 million in government cash -a direct violation of treasury regula tions. In exchange, Luyt testified, he pledged as publisher of the Citizen to support editorially the government's apartheid policies. But, Luyt said, he soon tired of Eschel Rhoodie's incessant efforts...
...Angeles Businessman J. Robert Fluor, it seemed a natural way to benefit his two favorite institutions: the University of Southern California, which he serves as chairman of the board of trustees, and the Fluor Corp., an international construction firm he heads that last year did $272 million worth of business in Saudi Arabia alone. Fluor's brainchild was a $22 million research institute at U.S.C. to be called the Middle East Center and funded by American corporations, including his own, with a stake in the Middle East. After all, some 20% of U.S.C.'s enrollment is foreign...
...parts of academe that some Middle Eastern nations, by freely spending their petrodollars to support programs at universities ranging from Georgetown to Stanford, were trying to gain undue influence in the U.S. Nonetheless, some of the resistance to the U.S.C. center seemed more emotional than anything else. Jewish Businessman Allen Ziegler, a U.S.C. alumnus,, announced that he had sent back his lifetime membership card in the Alumni Association in protest. Said Ziegler: "I wonder where they're going to put the mosque...
...there were other concerns as well, having less to do with geopolitics than with campus politics. As announced by U.S.C. President John Hubbard, responsibility for the financial support of the center was to be vested in a three-man committee comprising a Los Angeles-area businessman, a U.S.C. dean and U.S.C. Professor Willard Beling, a former employee of Aramco (Arabian American Oil Co.) and holder of the Saudi-endowed King Faisal Chair of Islamic and Arab Studies. Beling would also become the center's director, and many of the faculty were fretting over his not being subject...
...trade barrier. Assistant Commerce Secretary Frank Weil agrees that the technical quotas and tariff restrictions have now been largely dismantled and that "there are really few restrictions on manufactured goods." But, he adds, they have been replaced by something different: "a mentality on the part of the average Japanese businessman that says 'I've been told for a hundred years I shouldn't import. I can make it here.' It's a sort of conditioned reflex." Says Norman Glick, a member of the U.S. Commerce Department's trade facilitation committee: "The Japanese have protection...