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...neither Dr. Martin Sweig nor Attorney Nathan Voloshen has been seen around much lately. Sweig, administrative assistant to House Speaker John W. McCormack for 24 years, was suspended from his $36,000 job after he was linked with the shadowy, 71-year-old Voloshen in an investigation of high-level influence peddling. Voloshen went quietly underground...
...drug authorities have tried for years to get France and Turkey to tighten restrictions on "H," but without much success. Last week the White House announced that President Nixon, concerned by estimates that 180,000 Americans are now addicted to heroin, has made the problem a matter of high-level diplomacy. International heroin control, as one Administration official put it, "is now a foreign policy objective of the United States...
...High-level Whispers. The Soviet arms budget is, however, undeniably under pressure, because the Soviet civilian economy has been badly shortchanged as a result of Russia's costly military intervention in Czechoslovakia and the buildup along the Chinese border. Moscow urgently needs to increase its investment in agriculture, which suffered heavily this year as severe weather snapped a string of good harvests. Western experts scoff that some of the 160 million-ton grain crop the Soviets are claiming to harvest "must still be under the snow...
...present, Fouraker is in charge of allocating research funds at the Business School for faculty projects. He also teaches in the Advanced Management Program for high-level business executives...
...commission's ban on the sale of the firm's stock; six days later, the stop order was canceled. Subsequent investigation persuaded the SEC to bring the suit last week on charges that the price of Parvin/Dohrmann stock was being manipulated. The case raised the specter of high-level influence peddling through McCormack's office...