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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skokie (pop. 66,200) and pulled up before the 13-story North Shore Hilton. Half of the city's 61-man police force joined the cordon of Secret Service agents protecting the hotel. To help out, a dozen men who had been fired from the force in a contract dispute last summer joined their former colleagues on guard. About 500 of the city's residents stood shivering in the night outside the hotel when Ford arrived, and he waved for about 30 seconds to acknowledge their cheers...
...nationalized 51% of Occidental's subsidiary there. Since then, Oxy complains, Libya has restricted production to the point that the company cannot fulfill its commitments to customers. Last month Occidental notified the Libyans that it was filing suit in international arbitration courts for $1 billion, claiming breach of contract; simultaneously, it refused to pay $440 million in royalties and taxes. The Libyans, according to Occidental, last week cut off crude deliveries altogether and refused to let 520 non-Libyan employees of the corporation, including 230 Americans, leave the country...
...accepted company favors in violation of Defense Department conflict-of-interest rules. The officers accepted invitations to spend weekends shooting duck, geese and quail at Northrop's leased hunting preserve near Easton, Md., even though the company, a major defense contractor, is currently angling for a multibillion-dollar contract to build 800 F-18 jet fighters for the Navy...
...Scott may have his own credibility problems. TIME has learned that Scott approached Kohn and Weir last Memorial Day weekend and asked them to help him write a book and a magazine article about Patty and the S.L.A. The trio negotiated with McGraw-Hill Editor John Simon for a contract, but Simon's bosses rejected their price-a $100,000 to $200,000 advance-as excessive, and had doubts about the reliability of their information. Scott, Kohn and Weir then went to work on the Rolling Stone article, for which the magazine offered Scott as much...
...those opportunities, such as Lordstown, which offer the best hope of realizing the workers' autonomy in the factories for fear of alienating his friends in the union leadership. Such an action would pose a major threat to the union bosses whose main responsibility is the enforcement of the contract in return for certain material concessions from management...