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...unidentified ITT employee slipped Columnist Jack Anderson the famous Dita Beard and Chile memos, and Anderson says that someone at ITT still feeds him information. Last week Anderson wrote that a high-level employee at Pfizer Inc. tipped him that the drug company's managers were urging workers to write their Congressmen to express opposition to a bill that would set up a federal consumer-protection agency; a worker at Ford apparently put Anderson on to safety defects in the company's "sexy" Capri compact. This month in Harper's, Kermit Vandivier, a former B.F. Goodrich data...
They dress like soldiers and talk like soldiers, but many soft-palmed South Viet Nam army colonels holding high posts in the Defense Ministry act more like business executives-which indeed they are. By tapping the monthly paychecks of their troopers, the colonels have built a string of army-owned business ventures. They have also provoked « enough protest, both, from soldiers and | from competing private entrepreneurs, -that the South Viet Nam government last month began a high-level investigation. Last week, under pressure from the U.S. embassy, the government dismissed five Defense Ministry officials and ordered the tyro tycoons...
When it comes to high-level public spending for high-quality services, no Western country can match Sweden. Its taxes total 41% of its gross national product, compared with 31% in the U.S. Swedes earn less than Americans; wages of blue-collar workers average...
...replace Peterson as international economic adviser the President chose Peter Flanigan, 48, a Princeton-educated former Wall Street investment banker who has been a high-level Mister Fix-It-the chief White House liaison man with business leaders and Wall Street. Flanigan will give up his seat on the Cost of Living Council and most other jobs concerning the domestic economy. That will undoubtedly please Ralph Nader, with whom Flanigan has clashed repeatedly. Besides overseeing the comprehensive trade policy drafted by Peterson, which could well lead to a "Nixon Round" of tariff-cutting negotiations (TIME, Jan. 24), Flanigan will continue...
...year will be not so much domestic but international. There is some doubt about whether U.S. growth can revive strongly in the face of a slowdown in Western Europe and Japan. Business news from overseas is gloomy: declining profits in Germany, roaring inflation (9%) and relatively high joblessness (4%) in Britain, and high-level talk in Japan that this year marked the end forever of perennial 10% annual growth...