Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate confirmation hearings for Attorney General Richard Kleindienst on April 19, 1972, California's Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke was asked if it was correct that he had had "no conversation" with anyone in the Justice Department about the fact that "the ITT people had promised to do certain things in San Diego" before the settlement of a federal antitrust suit against ITT. Replied Reinecke: "That is quite true." For those four words, Reinecke, 50, was convicted of perjury last week by a federal jury in Washington...
Reinecke admitted to the Senators that he and then Attorney General John Mitchell had discussed ITT's pledge of up to $400,000 to support the 1972 Republican Convention then scheduled for San Diego. But, he said, this discussion took place only after the antitrust suit was settled in July 1971. In the course of his two-week perjury trial, Reinecke was forced to admit that he had mentioned the ITT offer to Mitchell a full two months before the settlement...
...intimidate political opponents, the widespread surveillance of Government officials and newsmen and the raising of milk prices after the promise of a $2 million campaign contribution from dairymen. But the President seemed to be cleared of charges that he had forced a settlement of an antitrust suit against ITT in return for a pledge of up to $400,000 contribution to the G.O.P. National Convention. He tried to order the Justice Department to drop the suit, however, because businessmen were unhappy about the Administration's temporarily aggressive antitrust policy. Buttressing a narrative of events was an impressive array of documents...
Fascism, Fascism, Fascism!, after hit runs in Greece, Chile, Brazil, South Vietnam and a few other places, moved into Cyprus for a trial performance early this week. Critics at ITT and the Pentagon give it good notices, and are thinking of bringing it here when audience surveys show the time is right. Sources say that a wave of resistance will eliminate the show from the political arena in the near future...
Third Position. During his first two terms, Peron stripped the political power of the hated latifundistas, the landowning oligarchy that had dominated Argentine politics. He moved against unpopular foreign business interests by having the state buy the British-owned railways and ITT-owned telephone system. In foreign affairs he was the first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean...