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...Pentagon was initially unperturbed. "Nothing improper or illegal," said Spokesman Fred Hoffman. Indeed, Pentagon Counsel Chapman Cox had approved Gilleece's move, requiring only that she stop handling Government business with the 29 firms she was soliciting. Faced with criticism inside and outside the Pentagon, Gilleece finally decided not to set up the firm. And late last week she submitted her resignation. CONGRESS Giving and Receiving...
...insurance industries, all of which benefit from tax breaks threatened by some of the tax plans under consideration. Not surprisingly, Oregon's Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has received the most enthusiastic support: $2.6 million so far, $691,000 of it PAC money. Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer notes that PACS have donated $3.7 million to the 56 members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees, more than triple the amount contributed by PACs in 1983, the last congressional nonelection year. "We are seeing a classic example of how PACs operate," Wertheimer says...
...little ones. Said Erica Hess: "They ask me what words mean and what the directions in their work books say." Sevalstad takes pride in the Thanksgiving themes tacked to one wall. Wrote Vance Voldseth, age 10: "I am thankful for the Yamaha three-wheeler ... I am thankful for Fred [a calf] ... I am thankful...
That line does not square with the memory of many CBS veterans, who considered Stanton one of the network's bulwarks of integrity. Fred Friendly, Murrow's longtime associate, admits that "the relationship between Murrow and Stanton was strained" but asserts that the CBS president later became one of the news division's firmest defenders: "He was willing to go to prison rather than submit outtakes of [the CBS documentary] The Selling of the Pentagon. " Stanton, who retired from CBS in 1971, has not seen the movie but says that, in general, "I feel negatively about docudramas." Despite the unflattering...
...Brussels. That could make it hard for him to persuade Chirac and other leaders that a further liberalization of trade is in their interest. "There's a much higher risk of only a modest outcome to the Doha round," because of antiglobalization fears in Europe, says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Washington-based Institute for International Economics. Others are more pessimistic. Kenneth S. Rogoff, a former research director at the International Monetary Fund, says: "One has to be very concerned that we will see total trade paralysis over the next five years." Avoiding such a timid outcome in Hong...