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...whiff, the content of [MORE]'s new issue gives off such a stench of conspiracy that you'll forget mere takeover theories. Foremost on the list of subjects is Spiro Agnew, who would still be in prison were it not for plea-bargainers in the Justice Department like Elliot Richardson. Instead, Spiro the Kickbacker is on the bestseller list, with a novel charging, among other rantings and ravings, that a Jewish cabal controls the media and exerts extreme pro-Zionist influence on American foreign policy. Unfortunately, [MORE] chooses to take Agnew seriously, devoting six swampy pages to the various interminglings...
...known. Ray is personally close to Ford, chairman of the convention platform committee-and also obscure in national terms. Rhodes is a nonabrasive conservative with slight appeal outside the South and West. Missing from the lineup are such more or less liberal favorites as Nelson Rockefeller and Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, who have fared poorly in delegate polls...
...even held court at a full-blown press conference in Washington. Yet in the harrowing, narrowing race between Ford and Ronald Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination, the hoopla was not all that excessive. So vital has every vote become that the solitary delegate holding out for Non-Candidate Elliot Richardson was won over to the Ford ledger last week when Richardson himself made a personal plea...
Pressure is nonetheless building for Sporkin to go slow. In a recent letter to Senator William Proxmire, Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson was worried about the SEC's "expansive definition of materiality," meaning its prosecution of bribery and kickback cases. That drew a sharp reply from SEC Chairman Roderick Hills, and Richardson backed off -at least temporarily. Characteristically, Sporkin wants to expand his job even further: "We've seen the worst of the overseas scandals but I'm afraid only the beginning of straightforward, old-fashioned bribery and embezzlement here at home. There...
...Washington press conference, Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson, who headed the Administration's task force on questionable corporate payments abroad, objected that Proxmire's bill was unworkable. Said he: "If you make it illegal to commit acts that occur in another country, you create problems of investigation and enforcement." The Administration's proposal, by contrast, seeks to apply penalties only where they could be made to stick. In effect, the bill consists of two catches that exemplify the old cliche, "Damned if you do and damned...