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Before Labor Contractor Juan Corona was convicted in 1973 for one of the greatest mass murders in memory-hacking and bludgeoning to death 25 itinerant farm workers around the sun-baked orchards of Yuba City. Calif.-his lawyer tried a stunning tactic. Defense Attorney Richard Hawk. 45. offered hardly any defense at all. Though he questioned a few of the 116 witnesses summoned by the prosecution, he called none himself and his summation lasted a bare seven minutes. In spite of that, the jury's first vote was 7 to 5 for acquittal, and it took a total...
...headache became acute when House hearings on FBI practices compelled him to open a probe into the corruption of an agency once thought incorruptible. It turned out that FBI administrators had sanctioned big markups in the price of bugging equipment bought by the bureau from a favored contractor, Joseph Tait. Mohr, Callahan, Adams and as many as a dozen other FBI officials regularly played poker with Tait at the Blue Ridge Club near Harpers Ferry...
...fiscal 1979, largely because of increased personnel costs. A presidential panel last week recommended reform of exorbitant military pensions. Now, a 20-year veteran can retire at 37 and draw a full pension for the rest of his life. Thomas V. Jones, chairman of Northrop, a major defense contractor, charges that the Pentagon and its suppliers have come to accept cost overruns as a way of life. He urges that the Defense Department sign fixed-price contracts with no renegotiations allowed. If costs cannot be estimated accurately, says Jones, the military should award a prototype or development contract rather than...
...Powers's blanket denial proved questionable during the second day of the strike when a man working in the Leverett House small dining room identified himself as a carpenter working for an independent contractor. Powers said he had no knowledge of the Leverett situation. While the union and the University argued back and forth--the union accusing the University of disregarding its employees, and the University calling the carpenters' requests "unreasonable"--the B&G employees walked...
...bomber, has been born again as Pittsburgh-based Rockwell International; its 1977 sales of $5.9 billion (and earnings of $144 million) include pocket calculators and Admiral television sets as well as the space shuttle. Northrop owns the George A. Fuller Co. of New York City, a large general contractor that also maintains airplanes. Planemakers are attempting to avoid concentrations of employment, dispersing some work from the West Coast and building aircraft in several states to cushion the economic impact of possible setbacks. McDonnell Douglas, for example, makes F4s in St. Louis...