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...after the first week, most of the visiting Americans were discouraged. Declared Warren Lind, a DuPont executive: "At the top, the Japanese seem committed to opening their market. But when the fellow down the line actually makes the decision, the tendency is still to 'buy national...
...Motors, as well as small firms like RH Packaging of Clearwater, Fla. RH's president, Ron Hume, claims he has invented a machine that packages liquids like yogurt and orange juice at one-third the operating cost of comparable Japanese equipment. So far Hume has found no takers. DuPont's Lind joined the tour only because DuPont last year managed to push through import approval for its new blood analyzers in the remarkably short period of four months (vs. the usual nine to 18 months waiting time); DuPont has already sold 20 of the devices...
...most visible symbol of the business world's new willingness to get into the trenches is the Business Roundtable, composed of nearly 200 top officers of the nation's most powerful corporations (among them: AT&T, Boeing, DuPont, General Motors, Mobil Oil, General Electric). The group's policy committee convenes monthly in New York to stake out positions on pending legislation and plot strategies to influence the outcome. Often invited to the White House, the executives get their views across to the President. While in Washington, some stay on to buttonhole legislators. Says one lobbyist: "A Congressman is impressed...
DIED. Clifford Dupont, 72, first President of Rhodesia after the African country established itself as a republic in 1970; of cancer; in Salisbury. A dapper London-born soldier who practiced law before turning to politics, Dupont helped draw up the Unilateral Declaration of Independence that first cut Rhodesia's ties with Great Britain in 1965 and reaffirmed white minority rule. As head of state under Prime Minister Ian Smith (he was, he once said, politically far to the right of Smith), he appropriated not only the powers of British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs but also his vintage Rolls-Royce...
...Velsicol Corporation began production in 1976 of another pesticide, EPN, which scientists suspect is twice as toxic as Phosvel. EPN and Phosvel have the same chemical base. The EPA has recommended the EPN be banned from the United States. At present, several major companies manufacture EPN, the largest being DuPont Chemical Company...