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...head of the newly revived State Finance and Economic Commission, Vice Premier Chen Chen, 79, in effect becomes China's principal economic technocrat and a powerful figure in his own right. Chen had been purged from similar posts after he opposed the Great Leap Forward espoused by Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...lack of cash, is expected to follow its first quarter $53.8 million loss with a second quarter deficit that could come close to $200 million. The company may end the year with a loss of more than $400 million, double last year's $204.6 million deficit. Chairman John Riccardo has made a dozen trips to Washington since mid-1978 to plead for tax breaks and relief from some federal environmental and safety regulations. His hope is to ease the financial strain enough to skinny through to 1981, when President Lee lacocca is expected to bring out a series...
Last month Riccardo told Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and White House Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat that without aid Chrysler would soon cease to be a major force in the U.S. car market. He repeated this two weeks ago to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long and House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman. Riccardo asked for tax relief that would bring an immediate cash refund to the company...
John Hanley, chairman of Monsanto Co., remembers his moment of conversion. Last March, at a Citibank board meeting in Manhattan, he heard a Georgetown University political analyst expound on America's deteriorating position in the world. As Hanley recalls, "I went home to St. Louis and sat down alone in my office and listed all the candidates from both parties who could conceivably run. Never mind if we could elect him, but who would have the best chance of changing the situation? It was clear as a bell to me that it was John Connally. I sent...
Says one of them, PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall: "Connally's greatest strength is in the Big Business community." Thomas Ellick, a corporate vice president of California's Fluor Corp., who was a special assistant to Governor Ronald Reagan in 1968-71, finds that "I'm just amazed at the breadth of the people who are coming out of the woodwork for John Connally. If anyone is looking for a replacement for John Wayne as the personification of America, this...